Hello,
for future reference, i can verify that the method described by Andries
Brouwer below worked fine, i can now boot 2.5.67-ac2 on my machine
using the aic7xxx driver for an old adaptec 2940 scsi controller.
Many thanks Andries!
Greetings, Christian Staudenmayer
--- Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 18, 2003 at 03:34:23PM -0700, Christian Staudenmayer wrote:
>
> > (sorry for posting this again, but the kind solution given
> > by Patrick Mansfield turn out to be no solution at all.
> > Thanks anyways :)
> >
> > i recently compiled 2.5.67-ac1 on my machine which uses the
> > aic7xxx driver for an old adaptec 2940 scsi controller.
> > When booting, the kernel panics after loading the scsi driver
> > with the following message:
> >
> > Process swapper (pid: 1, threadinfo=dbf8e000 task=dbf8c040)
> > Stack: c15259a8 c15259a8 00000001 00000002 dbf8fe48 c022cd1a c15259a8 000000ff
> > dbf8fe3c dbf8fe40
> > Call Trace:
> > [<c022cd1a>] ide_xlate_1024+0x106/0x18c
> > [<c01654aa>] handle_ide_mess+0x14e/0x1e8
>
> You have a SCSI disk, read its partitions, look whether
> special disk manager or geometry translations are required
> and crash.
>
> Why? Of course Alan should have removed this ide_mess :-),
> but I suppose Al is the culprit that broke ide_xlate_1024
> converting it to bdev.
>
> The code
>
> int ide_xlate_1024 (struct block_device *bdev, int xparm, int ptheads, const char *msg)
> {
> ide_drive_t *drive = bdev->bd_disk->private_data;
>
> is just broken - there is no guarantee that bdev is an IDE disk,
> and casting some private pointer to ide_drive_t and then
> accessing fields must be unhealthy.
>
> Try replacing the body of ide_xlate_1024 by just
>
> return 0;
>
> Andries
>
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