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Date:      Tue, 30 Mar 1999 21:22:11 -0700
From:      Drew Eckhardt <drew@plutotech.com>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: another ufs panic..
Message-ID:  <199903310422.VAA94479@pluto.plutotech.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9903301834340.28-100000@feral-gw>

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In article <Pine.LNX.4.04.9903301834340.28-100000@feral-gw> you write:
>On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Peter Jeremy wrote:
>> Sounds like it would be useful for the kernel to warn if a SCSI target
>> (including the controller) has parity disabled.  How easy is it to
>> detect this?  I can't quickly see it in the device-independent parts
>> of of a drive spec.
>
>Can't tell.

Some chips (Symbios) allow one to tweak parity for testing purposes. One 
could take advantage of this by executing some command guaranteed to be 
supported (test unit ready) with bad parity and watching what happened.



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