> With 1.2.94, For the first time with a 1.3.xx kernel (I started
> testing this sometime in the .50's, as I recall), I don't crash
> while using my scanner (touch wood...). With .90 I couldn't do
> more than about 5 scans on average before I'd get an ext2 panic
> but with 1.3.94 I've done over 33 consecutive scans, 23 of which
> are going to a file on disk, four of which were ~26MB files, the
> rest of which were almost 9MB, without a single panic. I've had
> all sorts of SCSI errors, including aborted commands, "INTFLY with
> no completed commands", and more that have scrolled off the screen
> which I can't recall. But the machine is still up, and ext2
> hasn't given out a peep.
I'd like to note that 1.3.91+ is the first time I've been able to use my
Buslogic 445C + Fujitsu 230MB magneto-optical drive in ages. Turns out it
was a media problem which occurred when we moved in February---but the
drivers in 1.3.91 and better started providing truly sane error messages,
and I'm very much impressed....
I still have problems with my machine freezing in that situation (reams of
bad sectors), and suspect that somewhere along the line error recovery is
not being handled properly at the filesystem level? Actually, that's an
ignorant comment, I haven't a clue. :)
lilo