On Sat, 12 Aug 2000, Kurt Garloff wrote:
> BTW, I have a Am53c974 (tmscsim), a sym53c875 and a TRM-S1040 (dc395x_trm)
> on a SCSI bus and never managed to start a reset war, despite manually
> resetting the bus quite often.
Uh. Two of these drivers happen to be maintained by you ;-)
> However, the SCSI subsystem should get some memory. If there are a like two
> consecutive bus resets caused by the same device, it should be just taken
> offline.
In that respect, we would require forced unmount as well, would not we?
If I take e. g. a faulty disk drive off-line, say, with a file system
that is not necessary for the system (say, an incoming FTP directory),
this could bring the system down with load rising and D processes all
over the place anyways (I experienced this).
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Matthias Andree
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