>1. we need to come up with a way of reasonably handing SCSI medium
> errors if we are going to use the READ10 command with the FUA
> bit clear.
>
>2. we could just set the FUA bit and bypass the drives on-board
> cache completely.
>
>Note that the only reason I've found this is because my HBA drives
>are _really_ pedantic about checking that all expected data does
>in fact get transferred by the drive.
>
>I wonder how many other drives out there are buggy like this. 8/
What about setting FUA on the next command after an error ?
Would this work or may the disk really keep stale data around ?
I don't have a recent SCSI spec at hand, but is there a command
we can send after an error to force a cache flush & invalidate
or will it only flush dirty datas to platter and not invalidate ?
Ben.
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