On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 04:58:03PM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: > Similar error previously reported by me for 2.6.17-rc1, except sda got > added fine: error occurred when attempting to add/register sdb. > Thankfully, you were able to append a trace... In my case, I was able to solve the problem by replacing this call at line 1648 in drivers/scsi/sd.c (patch attached): strncpy(sdkp->cdev.class_id, sdp->sdev_gendev.bus_id, BUS_ID_SIZE); by snprintf(sdkp->cdev.class_id, BUS_ID_SIZE, "%s", sdp->sdev_gendev.bus_id); Then it works. While debugging the whole thing, I was printk'ing the value of sdkp->cdev.class_id right after the strncpy call and here's what I getting (basically only the first 4 chars + final \0): "0:0:" So I guess the strncpy routine on alpha is fscked up or gcc is doing something crazy. The function is under arch/alpha/lib/strncpy.S, time to learn assembly. --- linux-2.6/drivers/scsi/sd.c 2006-03-28 13:28:24.000000000 +0200 +++ linux-2.6-mat/drivers/scsi/sd.c 2006-04-20 12:12:36.000000000 +0200 @@ -1645,7 +1645,8 @@ class_device_initialize(&sdkp->cdev); sdkp->cdev.dev = &sdp->sdev_gendev; sdkp->cdev.class = &sd_disk_class; - strncpy(sdkp->cdev.class_id, sdp->sdev_gendev.bus_id, BUS_ID_SIZE); + snprintf(sdkp->cdev.class_id, BUS_ID_SIZE, "%s", + sdp->sdev_gendev.bus_id); if (class_device_add(&sdkp->cdev)) goto out_put; -- Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer mchouque@xxxxxxx "Le disparu, si l'on vénère sa mémoire, est plus présent et plus puissant que le vivant". -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Citadelle -- - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html