Re: Kernel 2.4.[234] kernel panic, DMA Pool, CDROM Mount Failure

[Jens Axboe]

On Sat, Apr 28 2001, Jonathan Hudson wrote:
> In article <[e-mail]>,
> 	Jens Axboe <[e-mail]> writes:
> JA> On Sat, Apr 28 2001, Roman Fietze wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >> 
> >> I reported this before and the bug still exists in 2.4.4. The problem can
> >> be circumvented by using drivers/scsi/sr.c from kernel 2.4.[01]. This
> >> "fix" did not help just me, but somebody else I had contact with on the
> >> net.
> JA> 
> JA> Is the CDROM on the 1542?
> JA> 
> JA> And could you include full panic info, please?
> JA> 
> 
> In my case, with AHA 1542 (as reported here earlier), I get:
> 
> Apr 26 22:36:13 kanga kernel: sr: ran out of mem for scatter pad 
> Apr 26 22:36:13 kanga kernel: Kernel panic: scsi_free:Bad offset 
> 
> Hope this is of some help.

Yes this one is known, and I have a partial fix already. I was just
curious as to whether Roman's problems are related or not.

-- 
Jens Axboe