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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, j@uriah.heep.sax.de
Subject: Re: cvs commit:  src/sys/i386/isa aha1542.c
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>(Moved to -hackers, committers is not a discussion list.)

-hackers isn't suitable for discussion of changes -current either.

>> >  the beginning, in the (wrong) assumption that the SCSI controller must
>> >  always be of essential importance to the entire system.
>> 
>> It is, if the alterative is to write corrupted data.

>Nope, you're making the same (wrong) assumption as the author of the
>driver that any SCSI adapter must necessarily serve things that are of
>vital interest for the sanity of the system.  In my case, the machine

No, I'm just assuming that the it is unsafe to continue because the
author didn't handle the problem properly.

>Btw., i wonder why the bus jams unrecoverably.  The SCSI BIOS seems to
>be able to recover it fine.

Perhaps because the driver blunders on :-).

Bruce