On mar, oct 12, 1999 at 10:05:25 -0600, Chris M wrote:
> What do you mean "SCSI logic to handle drives..."
With a safety (no idea how you write this) backplane, a disk shelf can
communicate with the SCSI card and physically turn off a failed disk for
instance.
When some SCSI disks go bad, they can send crap and reset the bus all the
time. With hardware raid and the disk shelf, this can be prevented.
> Generally, if a drive dies, it seems like the HW RAID card is going to
> figure out to take that drive offline. I cant' imagine a failure that
> could sabotage the bus.
I've had drives that created a bunch of parity errors and/or would just
force bus resets.
Marc
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