sanity check: is 9211-8i, on 8.3, with IT firmware still "the one"

[Michael Fuckner]

On 01/20/2012 09:50 AM, Peter Maloney wrote:


Hi all,


> The "hot pull test":
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> dd if=/dev/random of=/somewhere/on/the/disk bs=128k
> pull disk
> wait 1 second
> put disk back in
> wait 1 second


this is way too fast- if a device is added or removed there is a 
complete rediscovery on the SAS-bus which takes at least 15 seconds.

In production environments this short span wouldn't happen, so this test 
may produce segfaults, but it is not realistic.

Regards,
  Michael!