AHA-2940, CHECK_CONDITION

Daniel M. Eischen deischen at iworks.InterWorks.org
Fri Aug 29 13:59:54 PDT 1997


> > The aic7xxx driver (and other drivers too) automatically request
> > the sense information upon a check condition.  Check the sense
> > buffer in the SCSI command for non-zero which is what I believe
> > the mid-level SCSI code does.  
> 
> Of course, we also set the aic7xxx_error(cmd) = DID_ERROR (mapped from 
> DID_RETRY_COMMAND).  This very well could be causing the mid level code to 
> retry the command instead of passing the sense up to the calling party.  It 
> may be more appropriate to do something like this:

We don't set any error on a CHECK_CONDITION.

Dan Eischen
deischen at iworks.InterWorks.org



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