Re: /proc/partitions hosed in 2.4.9-ac10

[Thorsten Kranzkowski]

On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 10:59:32AM -0500, Tim Walberg wrote:
> On 09/18/2001 17:43 +0200, Hubert Mantel wrote:
> >>	
> >>	You only have one single SCSI adapter?
> >>	
> >>	I tried several things so far, and it seems you need the following to 
> >>	trigger the problem: You need at least two SCSI adapters that require 
> >>	different drivers (so two AHA2940s are not sufficient) and the drivers 
> >>	need to be loaded as modules.
> >>	                                                                  -o)
> 
> 
> I would amend that a bit - it doesn't seem to have to be only two SCSI
> drivers, because I've seen the same with a 2.4.9-ac9 system with aic7xxx
> (with sg, sd, and sr) combined with usb-storage (which also uses sd).
> Granted usb-storage is kinda pseudo-SCSI, but it's not truly a SCSI
> low level driver.
> 
> 				tw

As a datapoint: I have seen this when I "scsi remove-single-device"'d a disk
from my system. After re-adding it (at the same ID/LUN etc. in this case) 
/proc/partitions was OK again.

Two different Adaptec controllers driven by AIC7xxx, compiled into kernel,
no modules.

Thorsten

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