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On 10/10/2014 04:27, Steve Wills wrote:
> Dying drives
> shouldn't cause panic, right?

There can be different shades of dying.  Returning errors is one thing, hanging
is a different thing.  There is a good reason why systems panics in that case.
I am surprised though that the hang was not detected in the lower layers like
ahci driver or CAM.

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Andriy Gapon