Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268145AbUIBKbo (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Sep 2004 06:31:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268147AbUIBKbo (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Sep 2004 06:31:44 -0400 Received: from the-village.bc.nu ([81.2.110.252]:43405 "EHLO localhost.localdomain") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268145AbUIBKbj (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Sep 2004 06:31:39 -0400 Subject: Re: Driver retries disk errors. From: Alan Cox To: Rogier Wolff Cc: Romano Giannetti , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <20040901231434.GD28809@bitwizard.nl> References: <20040830163931.GA4295@bitwizard.nl> <1093952715.32684.12.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20040831135403.GB2854@bitwizard.nl> <1093961570.597.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20040831155653.GD17261@harddisk-recovery.com> <1093965233.599.8.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20040831170016.GF17261@harddisk-recovery.com> <1093968767.597.14.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20040901152817.GA4375@pern.dea.icai.upco.es> <1094049877.2787.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20040901231434.GD28809@bitwizard.nl> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1094117369.4852.15.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2004 10:29:29 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 737 Lines: 17 On Iau, 2004-09-02 at 00:14, Rogier Wolff wrote: > I don't think so. It starts with the ide-cd level driver > doing 8 retries. Most disk we see retry themselves for about a > 4 second delay before reporting a bad block. A CD taking twice "Most", that is the heart of the reason for not taking them out. > that much would not sound abnormal. (seeks are about 10 times > as expensive on CDs). 8 times 8 seconds is a full minute. As I said media players need a way to turn it to no retry - 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/