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SubjectRe: Strange interrupt behaviour
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> The SCSI subsystem can be made to recurse forever if misused. And one of
> my worries with the SCSI subsystem is that it is too complex to be
> understood by mere mortals (and yes, I count myself into that category),
> so it is fairly easy to get wrong.

It also seems to die (as does floppy) if you hit a bad block right now. Bad
things also seem to occur on non X86 platforms. Notably the swapping from
sti() in places in the 5380 driver to save/restore flags is death on a Mac68K
box.

Alan


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