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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] retry HARDWARE ERROR for IBM ESS
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 19:10:12 +0000
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> +     case HARDWARE_ERROR:
> +           if ((strncmp(SCpnt->device->vendor, "IBM", 3) == 0) &&
> +               (strncmp(SCpnt->device->model, "2105", 4) == 0))
> +                 return NEEDS_RETRY;
> +           else
> +                 return SUCCESS;
> +

please don't hardcode models deep inside the scsu layer.  Add a new
blacklist flags and set it from the table in scsi_devinfo.c