As Peter Jeremy wrote ...
> Stephen McKay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >I was extracting from the Exabyte to the DDRS disk while applying a CTM
> >update from that disk against one of the DCAS disks when it crashed. The
> >Exabyte went wonky (took about 6 goes to get the tape ejected) and the
> >rest of the disk system locked up. The SCSI adapter was so confused I
> >had to power down.
>
> The exact order of events is not clear from this. In general, I'd say
> that if something managed to upset the SCSI bus sufficiently to
> confuse every target on it, then there's a reasonably likelihood that
> data transfers were also corrupted. A serious bus corruption during a
> disk write (either command or data phase) would have a reasonable
> chance of resulting in corrupt data on the disk (either the wrong data
> in the right place or the right data in the wrong place).
Hmm. I would generally expect SCSI errors etc to occur. Assuming the driver
reports those one would at least know the bus was whacko.
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