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From: Ingo Oeser <ingo.oeser@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de>
To: Terry Barnaby <terry@beam.ltd.uk>
Cc: Michael Madore <mmadore@aslab.com>,
	"Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@scsiguy.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Reproducible SCSI Error with Adaptec 7902
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2003 14:11:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030315141148.A626@nightmaster.csn.tu-chemnitz.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3E7200B7.6000907@beam.ltd.uk>; from terry@beam.ltd.uk on Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 04:17:59PM +0000

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

  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-03-15 13:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-03-14 10:59 Terry Barnaby
2003-03-14 14:53 ` Justin T. Gibbs
2003-03-14 15:48   ` Terry Barnaby
2003-03-14 17:34     ` Justin T. Gibbs
2003-03-18  9:50       ` Terry Barnaby
2003-03-19  2:15         ` Justin T. Gibbs
2003-03-20 10:07           ` Terry Barnaby
2003-03-14 16:18   ` Michael Madore
2003-03-14 16:17     ` Terry Barnaby
2003-03-14 17:35       ` Justin T. Gibbs
2003-03-15 13:11       ` Ingo Oeser [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-03-17 16:30 Cress, Andrew R
2003-03-18  9:37 ` Terry Barnaby
2003-01-07 16:49 Michael Madore
2003-01-07 19:32 ` Justin T. Gibbs

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