Bug 493448
| Summary: | The SCSI tape driver (st) does not support writing with larger buffers when using aic7xxx | ||||||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | Reporter: | Mike Christie <mchristi> | ||||
| Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Mike Christie <mchristi> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Red Hat Kernel QE team <kernel-qe> | ||||
| Severity: | urgent | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | medium | ||||||
| Version: | 5.4 | CC: | bash, coughlan, dzickus, gconnor, mchristi, peter.wainwright, pshyvers, revers, thenzl | ||||
| Target Milestone: | rc | ||||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |||||
| Clone Of: | 218369 | Environment: | |||||
| Last Closed: | 2009-09-02 08:50:47 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |||||
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |||||
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |||||
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| Bug Depends On: | 218369 | ||||||
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This bug is for just aic users. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=218369 will be for generic or usb issues depending on what we figure out. Peter Wainwright was using usb, so I am removing from this aic bugzilla so he does not have to listen to that noise. aic bug reporters/users can remove themselves from https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=218369 if they want. This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance release. Product Management has requested further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update release for currently deployed products. This request is not yet committed for inclusion in an Update release. The provided patch has resolved my issue. I chose to apply it to the stock 5.2 kernel, 2.6.18-92. Thank you! in kernel-2.6.18-140.el5 You can download this test kernel from http://people.redhat.com/dzickus/el5 Please do NOT transition this bugzilla state to VERIFIED until our QE team has sent specific instructions indicating when to do so. However feel free to provide a comment indicating that this fix has been verified. An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1243.html |
Created attachment 337634 [details] increase max sectors for aic7xxx increase max sectors for aic7xxx