Re: Adaptec dies after powerloss of a drive

[Matthias Andree]

Martin Peschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> The mentioned behavior should depend on whether we have an environment
> with several initiators or not. (Is it possible to detect this by means of
> INQUIRY?) 

It depends. Some adaptors (more precisely: their drivers) get upset and
throw resets or crash. (Seen with an Adaptec 1542 that crashed my
Amiga's CyberSCSI MkII during inquiry).

> A more defensive error handling should be applied in such
> environments. A compromise: let the user decide, i.e. during kernel
> configuration by means of a SCSI midlayer option forcing defensive
> error recovery.

The primary mission should be to get the SCSI stuff recovering without
second initiator.

-- 
Matthias Andree

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