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Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2003 14:11:48 +0100
From: Ingo Oeser <ingo.oeser@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de>
To: Terry Barnaby <terry@beam.ltd.uk>
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Subject: Re: Reproducible SCSI Error with Adaptec 7902
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On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 04:17:59PM +0000, Terry Barnaby wrote:
> The Seagate ST336607LW has firmware: 0004.
> Seagate have stated to me that this is the latest.
> They have also stated to me:
> 
>   Issuing an unrecognized or illegal command to the drive can cause the
>   drive to go into a hardware fault mode where it will no longer respond,
>   and may or may not respond to a SCSI BUS reset. It seems, in this case,
>   the drive will no longer respond to any commands issued by the
>   controller.
> 
> Is this "feature" now common on SCSI drives ????

Could we add a KERN_WARNING printk in sd.c quoting/referencing
this message on inquiry detecting this device? 

So sysadmins who are used to SCSI being robust could return the
drive to their vendors in exchange to a drive working along the
SCSI specs after reading this message.

Thanks in the name of the sysadmins.

Regards

Ingo Oeser
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