Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268568AbUIBQXu (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Sep 2004 12:23:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268675AbUIBQXt (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Sep 2004 12:23:49 -0400 Received: from rproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.170.205]:40610 "EHLO mproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268568AbUIBQXk (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Sep 2004 12:23:40 -0400 Message-ID: <311601c904090209235759c7a2@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 10:23:39 -0600 From: Eric Mudama Reply-To: Eric Mudama To: Alan Cox Subject: Re: Driver retries disk errors. Cc: James Courtier-Dutton , "Theodore Ts'o" , Rogier Wolff , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <1093952325.32684.7.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <20040830163931.GA4295@bitwizard.nl> <20040830174632.GA21419@thunk.org> <41337153.60505@superbug.demon.co.uk> <1093952325.32684.7.camel@localhost.localdomain> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 829 Lines: 17 On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 12:38:45 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > Not really as far as I can tell. It isn't a disk any more, its a storage > appliance on a funny connector. It already knows a lot about retries > internally as well as rewriting blocks with high ECC error > count. In fact you actually have to issue a different command to do > read/write without retry. True, but in the later versions of the ATA specification, the retry option was depreciated. I think you'll find virtually every ATA drive built today ignores that "suggestion" from the host. --eric - 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/