On Wed, 2002-09-04 at 11:37, Andries Brouwer wrote:
> The scsi error recovery has many bad properties, but one is its slowness.
> Once it gets triggered on a machine with SCSI disks it is common to
> have a dead system for several minutes. I have not yet met a situation
> in which rebooting was not preferable above scsi error recovery,
> especially since the attempt to recover often fails.
Well I for one prefer the scsi timeout/abort sequence on a CD getting
confused badly by a bad block (as at least some of my drives do) to a
reboot everytime I get bad media
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