Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: Strange interrupt behaviour | Date | Mon, 13 Jul 1998 23:09:34 +0100 (BST) |
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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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