RFC: ATA to CAM integration patch (INTEL DX58SO)

[Andriy Gapon]

on 07/07/2009 00:24 Scott Long said the following:
>> Still the box does a panic when writing to the disk that has bad
>> sectors on it. (I do newfs it between reboots).   Again, not sure if
>> this is a "well, dont use a bad disk", but here is the panic again in
>> case it shows something useful.
>>
> 
> This is a 'don't use a bad disk' panic; FreeBSD UFS and VM simply can't
> handle errors on reads or writes.

I think that this is not generally true, especially about reads.
And wasn't there a FreeBSD Foundation sponsored project to fix panics caused by
media going away? I think that panics on I/O errors are related to that.

trasz might be interested in this particular one.

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Andriy Gapon