Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268693AbUIBQ1k (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Sep 2004 12:27:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268675AbUIBQ0p (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Sep 2004 12:26:45 -0400 Received: from rproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.170.205]:41152 "EHLO mproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268693AbUIBQ0G (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Sep 2004 12:26:06 -0400 Message-ID: <311601c90409020926243b2a18@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 10:26:04 -0600 From: Eric Mudama Reply-To: Eric Mudama To: Alan Cox Subject: Re: Driver retries disk errors. Cc: Romano Giannetti , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <1094049877.2787.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 844 Lines: 16 On Wed, 01 Sep 2004 15:44:38 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > Things like Xine are precisely the cases where you want retry turned off > by the application - if the sector is bad then you want to skip when > playing movies, while you don't want to skip while writing out your > database This is what they're trying to accomplish with ATA-7 Streaming Feature Set ... tell the drive to just read through errors and send the garbage, without doing error recovery, for high bandwidth media readback. The first drives to support this feature set will be coming out relatively soon... - 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/