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Date:      Thu, 12 Oct 1995 06:40:41 -0700
From:      David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
To:        Peter Dufault <dufault@hda.com>
Cc:        julian@freefall.freebsd.org (Julian Elischer), CVS-commiters@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-sys@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/scsi sd.c st.c 
Message-ID:  <199510121340.GAA00191@corbin.Root.COM>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 12 Oct 95 05:35:27 EDT." <199510120935.FAA02039@hda.com> 

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>> 
>> julian      95/10/11 19:02:06
>> 
>>   Modified:    sys/scsi  sd.c st.c
>>   Log:
>>   Ack!
>>   sometime around 1.51, the check for minphys dissappeared out of
>>   transfers for disks..
>>   we weren't hecking that the adapter could handle a transfer of
>>   the size we were requesting..
>>   Peter!?
>>    :)
>
>I moved it up into scsi_strategy.  I apparently missed the raw I/O
>case.
>
>>   this explains the rash of failures I've seen reported recently
>>   with "too many DMA segments" on raw devices
>>   
>>   (added one for st as well)
>
>Can you put it in scsi_read/scsi_write instead so that all devices
>will have it?  Certainly the worm (if anyone ever gets one to test)
>will need it.

   How important is this fix? We've pretty much frozen the 2.1-stable code, so
I'm very reluctant to make any further changes unless they are show-stoppers.

-DG



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