Date: Thu, 13 Jul 1995 01:29:10 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Karl Denninger <karl@Mcs.Net> Cc: tom@misery.sdf.com (Tom Samplonius), rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SCSI disk wedge Message-ID: <199507130829.BAA02990@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: <199507130143.UAA00551@Jupiter.mcs.net> References: <Pine.BSF.3.91.950712183028.1872A-100000@misery.sdf.com> <199507130143.UAA00551@Jupiter.mcs.net>
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Karl Denninger writes: > If FreeBSD is going to be a production platform then it is going to have to > start behaving like one. This means that pushing things off on drive > vendors is not acceptable. Please, Tom doesn't necessarily speak for the FreeBSD Project! We agree that a problem is a problem, and finger pointing avails us nothing. > If you have a problem with a device, you *report it*. Silent death is never > acceptable. The kernel is running in this case, but the system is hung > waiting on I/O completion. This is one area in which the SCSI code needs significant improvement; no argument at all about that and we've known it for some time. Finding people willing to go in there with a flashlight hunting for unhandled error conditions and such is the more difficult problem. Jordan
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