Re: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24

[Alan Cox]

> I've seen a lot of verbosity out of SCSI messages, but I haven't seen a 
> straightforward interpretation of the problem in there. It's all 
> information useful for debugging, not information useful for system 
> administration.

It tells you what is going on. Unfortunately that frequently requires
some basic knowledge of how to interpret the error report. Drive
interface behaviour simply doesn't boil down to a fault light on the
dashboard or a "tighten the cable". For most common fault types you'll
get errors most administrators should find meaningful - like "Media error"

> On the other hand, bringing the system down because a device is 
> misbehaving is a poor idea. I've personally recovered most of the data off 

Hence we have RAID and SATA hotplug.

Alan
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