Re: Proposal to add a new sysfs attribute to SCSI device

2005-03-23 Thread James Bottomley
On Tue, 2005-03-22 at 11:05 +0800, Zhao, Forrest wrote: > Let me tell you the testing experience in our lab: > 1 we install kernel 2.6.11.2 on a Tiger4 platform, > 2 there're two SCSI disks, one is sda for root fs, the other is sdb for > /mnt > 3 execute "cp -r /usr/src/linux-2.6.11.2 /mnt" > 4 d

Proposal to add a new sysfs attribute to SCSI device

2005-03-21 Thread Zhao, Forrest
Hi, list Background: As we know, when the SCSI disk is in failure state, for example bad sectors appear on disk or disk is surprise-removed, the SCSI middle-layer will endless retry the failed I/O requests if SCSI mid-layer can't get the notification from LLDD to stop the retry. Unfortunately now