On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 15:15 -0400, Doug Ledford wrote:

It was tested, it simply obviously had a bug you hit.  Assuming that
your particular failure situation is the only possible outcome for all
the other people that used it would be an invalid assumption.  There are
lots of code paths in an error handler routine, and lots of different
hardware failure scenarios, and they each have their own independent
outcome should they ever be experienced.

This is the kind of statement why I said you were belittling my 
experiences. 

And to think that since I've hit it in three different machines with
different hardware and different kernel versions that it won't affect
others is something else. I thought I was helping, but don't worry I
learned my lesson, it won't happen again. I asked people for their
experiences, clearly not everybody is as lucky as I am.

Then you didn't pay attention to what I said before: RHEL3 was the first
ever RHEL product that had support for SATA hardware.  The SATA drivers
in RHEL3 *were* first gen.

Oh, I paid attention alright. It is my fault for assuming that things
not marked as experimental are not experimental.

Alberto