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

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Doug Ledford)
Thu Feb 24 00:48:26 2000

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Date:   Thu, 24 Feb 2000 00:23:41 -0500
From: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
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To: Ricky Beam <jfbeam@bluetopia.net>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Guest section DW <dwguest@win.tue.nl>,
	Matthias Andree <ma@dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de>,
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Ricky Beam wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
> >Do you think a SCSI blacklist entry for 'don't bus reset a bus with this
> >piece of junk on' would help ?
> 
> That list already exists (sortof)  There's a list of drives with whom
> drivers should not probe LUNs or attempt tagged queuing.  I messed with it
> once to allow queuing on my Jaz drive -- it was blcklisted but works just
> fine. (only a few firmware versions have a problem; it's safer to always
> say NO!)

More than a few versions of Jaz drive have that bug, everything with a
firmware version J.86 or earlier has that bug.

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 Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>  http://people.redhat.com/dledford
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