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* what does scsi sense means?
@ 2005-08-23  9:07 jeff shia
  2005-08-23 13:29 ` Erik Mouw
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From: jeff shia @ 2005-08-23  9:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel

in the file of aic7xxxx.c ,what is the function of the structure of
scsi_sense?here what is the meaning of  sense?just like probe?

any help will be appreciated!
Thank you!

Jeff

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* Re: what does scsi sense means?
  2005-08-23  9:07 what does scsi sense means? jeff shia
@ 2005-08-23 13:29 ` Erik Mouw
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From: Erik Mouw @ 2005-08-23 13:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: jeff shia; +Cc: linux-kernel

On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 05:07:12PM +0800, jeff shia wrote:
> in the file of aic7xxxx.c ,what is the function of the structure of
> scsi_sense?here what is the meaning of  sense?just like probe?

Return "value" of a failed command. Normally commands just succeed, but
if it fails, you can get "sense information" which tells you more about
why a particular command failed.


Erik

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