Subject: Re: IDE driver misfeature?
To: Tech-kern <tech-kern@NetBSD.org>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@cs.uni-bonn.de>
List: tech-kern
Date: 08/04/2004 08:40:56
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On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 08:51:09AM +0300, Jukka Marin wrote:
> Hello,
>=20
> Running 2.0beta:
>=20
> Is it a feature of the new IDE driver that a failing disk can lock up
> the whole computer?  It feels like the spl level stays very high during
> a disk operation and if a drive is having problems reading a block (for
> example), the computer is (almost) dead until the command is completed.

you neve experienced a Solaris8/Sparc machine with a failing SCSI disk,
right? ;-) Same "problem", and its a good thing, because it alerted us
to the condition.

Regards,
	-is

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