Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 8 Mar 2003 16:08:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 8 Mar 2003 16:08:23 -0500 Received: from ip68-101-124-193.oc.oc.cox.net ([68.101.124.193]:48271 "EHLO ip68-101-124-193.oc.oc.cox.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 8 Mar 2003 16:08:23 -0500 Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2003 13:18:59 -0800 From: "Barry K. Nathan" To: Alan Cox Cc: kelleycook@wideopenwest.com, Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: IBM^H^H^HHitachi disk tools (was Re: Disabling ATAPI retry?) Message-ID: <20030308211859.GA32725@ip68-101-124-193.oc.oc.cox.net> References: <3e67c49b.7c12.1804289383@wideopenwest.com> <1046991672.17715.134.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1046991672.17715.134.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 910 Lines: 20 On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 11:01:12PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > There isn't. You can always build a kernel set not to, but even then it > takes the drive firmware a sizeable time to retry a block. If its an IBM > you might want to try the ibm tools on them if you can get them. They > seem to have vanished from the face of the earth when IBM dumped its disk > business Actually, IBM dumped its disk business to Hitachi, and that's where the tools went too: http://www.hgst.com/hdd/support/download.htm They say "HITACHI" instead of "IBM" but otherwise they're the same tools with the same user interface and same functionality. -Barry K. Nathan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/