17 Jun
1998
17 Jun
'98
6:21 a.m.
<Anyway, concerning the uVAX SCSI/DMA code, seeing as
<1, the SCSI code works most of the time, and
<2, retrying when it fails clears the problem (most of the time),
<why not patch the DMA code to retry an operation instead of failing
<and returning SIGSEGV? Of course, this will get you when something actua
<fails, but could it be tried?
Err, how about fixing the scsi code so it works correctly and only
flagging fatal errors or warnings where warrented. This would remove a
lot of "soft" errors and likely clean up other problems as well.
Allison