Re: 2.6.17-mm5 dislikes raid-1, just like mm4

[Grant Wilson <grant.wilson@zen.co.uk>]

James Bottomley wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-07-02 at 17:13 +1200, Reuben Farrelly wrote:
>> Just for kicks, after testing those two trees (see previous email) I
>> took my 
>> 2.6.17-mm5 without git-scsi-misc and then patched git-scsi-misc.patch
>> back in, 
>> rebuilt and rebooted and noted that RAID broke again.  Reverted the
>> patch and it 
>> all worked.
>>
>> So I can conclude that definitely and reproduceably that's the
>> one.........
> 
> OK, I have a theory.  I think 
> 
> [SCSI] sd/scsi_lib simplify sd_rw_intr and scsi_io_completion
> 
> Failed to take into account completion of zero length commands (which is
> what a flush is).  Could you try the whole of -mm with this patch?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> James
> 
[patch snipped]

With the patch applied to 2.6.17-mm5 my RAID-1 is up and running on both
SATA drives with no problems.

Thanks,
Grant
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