Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: aic7xxx sets CDR offline, how to reset? | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 04 Sep 2002 12:23:13 +0100 |
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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
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