Hi, I've applied your patch and rebuilt the kernel but it'll be a few days before I can try it since the machine in question is Very Busy(tm) right now. thanks. Stoned koala bears drooled eucalyptus spit in awe as James Bottomley said: > I'd say that's pretty conclusive. The theory being that the WD doesn't > have a functional echo buffer, or it lies about the size and in either > case we get errors back not because of a syndrome test failure but > because of a problem in the WD echo buffer. > > Try this patch for diagnosis only ... what it's doing is disabling the > echo buffer tests globally. If everything boots up OK (please send > dmesg output so I can see what the echo buffer length is), then we get > to try to figure out if the WD can do any echo buffer tests or if it has > to be globally blacklisted (not fun ... LVD really shouldn't be > configured without the echo buffer test of the transmission line). -- William Brodie-Tyrrell Carpe Diem - fish of the day. <william@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> http://www.brodie-tyrrell.org/ - : 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
