Their adherence to the SCSI standard was slightly suspect when they
first were tied to ye olde VAXEN and age has not been kind to them.
So I can't expect the authors of the SCSI tape / SCSI disk drivers to
really do anything about them. But I have a cosmic level question for
the list...
When this hardware screws up, the kernel (most versions I've tried but
currently I'm on 2.1.127) locks up hard.
Is this basically a side effect of the non-microkernel nature of linux
and would it go away if I used something like Hurd? Or would bad
hardware confuse any system (via the woodpecker syndrome) anyway?
Are there any parameters on linux scsi I can twiddle that would cause
more paranoid assumptions to be made about the sanity of the hardware?
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galaxy. On the edge of this galaxy, is a star, one of trillions of such
stars. Orbiting this star, is tiny ball of iron. On this tiny ball is
a very thin scum of lighter elements.
Some of which have delusions of grandeur.
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