Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 07:28:15 -0700 From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: Peter Dufault <dufault@hda.com> Cc: Dan Strick <dan@math.berkeley.edu>, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: the scsi pass through ioctl Message-ID: <3587D27F.71FA5B69@feral.com> References: <199806170931.FAA15033@hda.hda.com>
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Peter Dufault wrote: > > I don't know of any reason and I did test it on active disks. > Harmless scsi commands should be fine. Any part of the system not > heavily used and not regression tested is likely to have problems > and should be used cautiously at first. Formatting disks, I/O > bypassing the buffer cache, and so on must be avoided... Even a TEST UNIT READY may put a device over it's tag limit. Some devices and host adapter drivers may not cope with this well, but, yes, this should mostly be okay. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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