How to force a bus reset?

[Randy Gobbel]

On  8-Jan-99 at 13:00, Doug Ledford (dledford at redhat.com) wrote:
> Randy Gobbel wrote:
> 
> > the other messages from tape drive owners, many different types of
> > sequential-access devices are having problems--so there's definitely a
> > bug in that version of the aic7xxx driver. 
> 
> It's not the aic7xxx driver, it's the st.c driver.  It fails to clear and
> error condition once encountered in certain versions of the kernel.  I
> would know more, but I no longer have a tape drive and don't really have
> any means of testing changes I might make.  I'll try and wrestle a tape
> drive from somewhere....

The problem doesn't arise at all with earlier versions of the aic7xxx driver. 
I've run into this problem with a recent development kernel, and then seen
everything work fine with a 2.0.35 kernel.  Did someone break st.c?

-Randy


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