From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: "William J. Earl" <wje@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com>
Cc: mingo@chiara.csoma.elte.hu, jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com,
alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: Getting big areas of memory, in 2.3.x?
Date: Thu, 9 Dec 1999 22:26:45 +0000 (GMT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E11wC1Q-0002fc-00@the-village.bc.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <14416.10643.915336.498552@liveoak.engr.sgi.com> from "William J. Earl" at Dec 9, 99 02:13:39 pm
> That is not the case for loadable (modular) drivers. Loading st
> as a module, for example, after boot time sometimes works and sometimes does
> not, especially if you set the maximum buffer size larger (to, say, 128K,
> as is needed on some drives for good space efficiency).
Dont mix up crap code with crap hardware. Scsi generic had similar problems
and has been fixed. There are very very few non scatter-gather scsi controllers
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-12-09 22:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-12-09 1:03 Jeff Garzik
1999-12-09 2:28 ` Alan Cox
1999-12-09 2:45 ` Jeff Garzik
1999-12-09 5:22 ` Oliver Xymoron
1999-12-09 12:25 ` Ingo Molnar
1999-12-09 20:24 ` Jeff Garzik
1999-12-09 20:31 ` Kanoj Sarcar
1999-12-09 20:39 ` Rik van Riel
1999-12-09 20:54 ` Kanoj Sarcar
1999-12-09 23:21 ` Ingo Molnar
1999-12-09 22:27 ` Kanoj Sarcar
1999-12-09 23:16 ` Ingo Molnar
1999-12-09 23:09 ` Benjamin C.R. LaHaise
1999-12-10 0:44 ` Ingo Molnar
1999-12-10 0:18 ` William J. Earl
1999-12-11 19:56 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1999-12-10 12:21 ` Rik van Riel
1999-12-10 13:42 ` Ingo Molnar
1999-12-10 18:04 ` William J. Earl
1999-12-09 20:50 ` William J. Earl
1999-12-09 23:15 ` Ingo Molnar
1999-12-09 22:13 ` William J. Earl
1999-12-09 22:26 ` Alan Cox [this message]
1999-12-09 23:42 ` William J. Earl
1999-12-09 23:50 ` Alan Cox
1999-12-10 0:30 ` William J. Earl
1999-12-10 0:37 ` Alan Cox
1999-12-10 4:19 ` Oliver Xymoron
1999-12-10 10:14 ` Thomas Sailer
1999-12-09 23:24 ` Ingo Molnar
1999-12-09 22:33 ` Jeff Garzik
1999-12-09 23:32 ` Rogier Wolff
1999-12-09 23:44 ` JF Martinez
1999-12-10 0:52 ` Ingo Molnar
1999-12-09 23:46 ` Andi Kleen
1999-12-10 13:52 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
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