Re: Transient disk failures not retried?

2001-01-17 Thread Max TenEyck Woodbury
Dan Jones wrote: Max TenEyck Woodbury wrote: ... My impression is that no error recovery is being tried for transient failures. Could someone confirm this? If this is correct, what changes are need to be made to correct the problem? Well, as I imagine you already know, your basic

Re: Linux not adhering to BIOS Drive boot order?

2001-01-17 Thread James Bottomley
OK, what about a compromise. The fundamental problem that we all agree on is that SCSI devices are detected in the order that the mid-layer hosts.c file calls their detect routines. Further, for multiple cards of the same type, the detection order is up to the individual driver. A different

Re: Linux not adhering to BIOS Drive boot order?

2001-01-17 Thread Ishikawa
"J . A . Magallon" wrote: Average users you are targetting with that automagical card detection even do not know there are SCSI and IDE disks. They just want a 30Gb ide disk to install linux and play. If they involve with SCSI and ID numbers and multiple cards and so on they can read some

Re: Linux not adhering to BIOS Drive boot order?

2001-01-17 Thread Douglas Gilbert
Michael Meissner wrote: On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 12:32:05AM +0100, J . A . Magallon wrote: If that is your idea of the average user... You're a system administrator, you can have tons of scsi cards in your system if you want. You want to make things SOOO easy for a 'dummy' user, and

2.4.0 scsi_error.c - correction for new error handling setting devices offline after bus reset [PATCH]

2001-01-17 Thread Bob Frey
There has been discussion recently on the linux-scsi list about devices being put offline incorrectly. There is such a problem with error handling in v2.4.0 (and v2.2.18) for low-level drivers that use the new error handling. The SCSI mid-level new error handling incorrectly puts devices offline