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Re: recovery behaviour with 1 bad + 1 good drive (aic7xxx)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Cox)
Tue Feb 22 18:32:10 2000

To: dwguest@win.tue.nl (Guest section DW)
Date:   Tue, 22 Feb 2000 20:59:45 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox),
	ma@dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de (Matthias Andree),
	linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>

> that the probability that something useful is achieved by a reset
> is larger than the probability that the situation only gets worse.
> I think that bus resets should be initiated by a human only.]

For many server setups Eric is right. In fact with the watchdog code running
and watchdog monitors the step after bus reset is power cycling on its own

For a lot of other cases you are right.


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