Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 07:18:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 07:18:18 -0400 Received: from pc1-cwma1-5-cust128.swa.cable.ntl.com ([80.5.120.128]:47603 "EHLO irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 07:18:17 -0400 Subject: Re: aic7xxx sets CDR offline, how to reset? From: Alan Cox To: Andries Brouwer Cc: James Bottomley , "Justin T. Gibbs" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20020904103737.GA9936@win.tue.nl> References: <20020903171321.A12201@redhat.com> <200209032148.g83LmeP09177@localhost.localdomain> <20020904103737.GA9936@win.tue.nl> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 (1.0.8-6) Date: 04 Sep 2002 12:23:13 +0100 Message-Id: <1031138593.2788.40.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 812 Lines: 16 On Wed, 2002-09-04 at 11:37, Andries Brouwer wrote: > The scsi error recovery has many bad properties, but one is its slowness. > Once it gets triggered on a machine with SCSI disks it is common to > have a dead system for several minutes. I have not yet met a situation > in which rebooting was not preferable above scsi error recovery, > especially since the attempt to recover often fails. Well I for one prefer the scsi timeout/abort sequence on a CD getting confused badly by a bad block (as at least some of my drives do) to a reboot everytime I get bad media - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/