[illumos-Developer] Important - time sensitive: Drive failures and infinite waits

[Gary Mills]

On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 02:04:42AM +0100, Alasdair Lumsden wrote:
> 
> Gordon Ross and George Wilson were kind enough to do some extensive
> rummaging around prior to the reboot, and with some input from Eric
> Schrock, it sounds like the issue was a phy lock due to an ASIC
> fault in the LSI 1068 present on the cards when used with SATA
> drives specifically.

Perhaps we need a software watchdog to protect against hardware
failures of that sort?  Doesn't the SCSI driver time out and do a bus
reset when the target doesn't respond?

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-Gary Mills-        -Unix Group-        -Computer and Network Services-