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Re: recovery behaviour with 1 bad + 1 good drive (aic7xxx)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Jones)
Tue Feb 22 20:26:56 2000
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Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 14:58:58 -0800
From: Dan Jones <djones@valinux.com>
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To: Ricky Beam <jfbeam@bluetopia.net>
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Ricky Beam wrote:
>
> That's a good asumption, but that _is_ why there's parity. I rank this
> up there with your car's engine cutting off because the EEC detected
> a sparkplug didn't fire.
>
Oh, goody, a metaphor war. I would liken SCSI parity to the
catalytic converter warning light. When that comes on it is time
to shut down the engine before serious damage results.
Sorry, couldn't resist.
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