flags parameter to all xxstart routines so that the correct information can
be passed down into the device specific routines. This is needed to ensure
that ccb/scb allocation routines don't hang.
Submitted by: John Dyson
sd.c: Julian's removal of subdriver requests
st.c, scsi_tape.h: Julian's suport of compressed tape drives
Note: compressed tape drives are still not working fully.
scsiconf.h, scsi_base.c, scsi_driver.c: address problems in probes
and error console logs
tape drive. I traced it to sys/scsi/scsi_base.c where some code were added
to print the return values of the sense command. My tape drive returned a
extended flags value of 0x20, so the key that is the lower 4 bits, is 0.
The code uses "key-1" to index into a table and then the kernel go to never-
never land.
Here is a fix for this. Will somebody please apply it?
Submitted by: John Hay
Reenabled "SCIOCOMAND" ioctl.
Restructured so low level drivers can easily request retries.
Added preliminary fixed SCSI devices (should be revisited before 2.1)
Added "ssc" device that can have its' (HBA, ID, LUN) set via ioctl.
with BOUNCE_BUFFERS. This is more intuitive, and is better for future
multiplatform support. Added BOUNCE_BUFFERS option to the GENERIC and
LINT kernel config files.
in your kernel config now).
2) Added ps ddb function from 1.1.5. Cleaned it up a bit and moved into its
own file.
3) Added \r handing in db_printf.
4) Added missing memory usage stats to statclock().
5) Added dummy function to pseudo_set so it will be emitted if there
are no other pseudo declarations.
use of timeout_t -> timeout_func_t in aha1542 and aha1742 drivers.
2) fix a bug in the portalfs that was uncovered by better prototyping -
specifically, the time must be converted from timeval to timespec
before storing in va_atime.
3) fixed/added some miscellaneous prototypes
1) check va before clearing the page clean flag. Not doing so was
causing the vnode pager error 5 messages when paging from
NFS. (pmap.c)
2) put back interrupt protection in idle_loop. Bruce didn't think
it was necessary, John insists that it is (and I agree). (swtch.s)
3) various improvements to the clustering code (vm_machdep.c). It's
now enabled/used by default.
4) bad disk blocks are now handled properly when doing clustered IOs.
(wd.c, vm_machdep.c)
5) bogus bad block handling fixed in wd.c.
6) algorithm improvements to the pageout/pagescan daemons. It's amazing
how well 4MB machines work now.
>From: Adam David <adam@veda.is>
Subject: SCSI timeout in sdopen()
Date: Sun, 6 Feb 1994 21:40:48 GMT
Index: sys FreeBSD-current
Reference: FreeBSD-current/sys/9
Description:
sdopen() times out on slow SCSI devices. This code was moved into
a different file, which might explain why it got missed again.
Repeat-By:
using slow SCSI disks
cd.c:
Initialize channel info in CDIOCSETVOL ioctl.
Correct CDIOCSTOP and CDIOCEJCET ioctls to use scsi_stop_unit
instead of scsi_start_unit.
Add CDIOCALLOW and CDIOCPREVENT ioctls.
ch.h:
Return EBUSY instead of ENXIO if the device is already in use.
scsi_base.c:
Add scsi_stop_unit routine.
sd.c:
Add mising indirection through sc_link to sd_get_parms routine
when checking for media loaded.
st.c:
Return EBUSY instead of ENXIO if the device is already in use.
Clear the SDEV_WAITING flag in ststart if we do the wakeup call.
a binary link-kit. Make all non-optional options (pagers, procfs) standard,
and update LINT to reflect new symtab requirements.
NB: -Wtraditional will henceforth be forgotten. This editing pass was
primarily intended to detect any constructions where the old code might
have been relying on traditional C semantics or syntax. These were all
fixed, and the result of fixing some of them means that -Wall is now a
realistic possibility within a few weeks.
Here is the fix for the 'hanging' bug.
This bug happenned whenever two operations were already underway on the
disk and a third (non-IO) command was requested..
in this case the process submitting the NON-IO command was requested to wait,
and a flag set so that on completion of the IO commands, the Non-io command
was given priority over any pending IO commands. (the queue is not
allowed to drain while there are pending "special" ops).
The flag that indicated this was not being reset, so further IO commands
were prohibited from that moment on.
