Re: RFC: ATA to CAM integration patch (INTEL DX58SO)

From: Andriy Gapon <avg_at_icyb.net.ua>
Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:12:29 +0300
on 07/07/2009 00:24 Scott Long said the following:
>> Still the box does a panic when writing to the disk that has bad
>> sectors on it. (I do newfs it between reboots).   Again, not sure if
>> this is a "well, dont use a bad disk", but here is the panic again in
>> case it shows something useful.
>>
> 
> This is a 'don't use a bad disk' panic; FreeBSD UFS and VM simply can't
> handle errors on reads or writes.

I think that this is not generally true, especially about reads.
And wasn't there a FreeBSD Foundation sponsored project to fix panics caused by
media going away? I think that panics on I/O errors are related to that.

trasz might be interested in this particular one.

-- 
Andriy Gapon
Received on Tue Jul 07 2009 - 08:12:46 UTC

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