Re: dying disk results in unusable system

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On Iau, 2005-08-18 at 17:31 -0700, dean gaudet wrote:
> thoughts?  i'm going to hang onto this bad disk so i can try out patches...
> if folks point me in the right direction(s) i could even work on fixes.

One problem at least is that unlike SCSI the IDE layer never gives up on
a device. That combined with a slow, polling heavy recovery process and
the fact master and slave can't be addressed together in IDE hoses stuff
pretty badly.

Alan
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