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Re: VAXstation 4000/90 SCSI weirdness on 10 RC5



On Sat, 23 Mar 2024, Johnny Billquist wrote:

> As for recovering - well. It's not like the system can just throw the disk
> reads/writes away if you have a timeout. It's going to keep trying at it. The
> only other option is to just crash.

 Well, the usual outcome is supposed to be EIO rather than a crash, though 
there are more complex scenarios too, e.g. when a page cannot be faulted 
in from storage.

  Maciej


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