Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261718AbVEZTu4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 May 2005 15:50:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261719AbVEZTuz (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 May 2005 15:50:55 -0400 Received: from mail.dvmed.net ([216.237.124.58]:16603 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261718AbVEZTuw (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 May 2005 15:50:52 -0400 Message-ID: <42962895.3020504@pobox.com> Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 15:50:45 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050328 Fedora/1.7.6-1.2.5 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ross Biro CC: Jim Gifford , LKML Subject: Re: Random IDE Lock ups with via IDE References: <4293B859.3070609@jg555.com> <4294BAE8.5050803@jg555.com> <8783be6605052513343fce843b@mail.gmail.com> <4294E409.9020907@jg555.com> <8783be6605052516577daeebdf@mail.gmail.com> <42961567.1010906@jg555.com> <8783be6605052612354c09ab8b@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <8783be6605052612354c09ab8b@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 566 Lines: 17 Ross Biro wrote: > problem. A drive vendor once told me that it could take more than a > minute for an IDE drive to complete a command. I no longer purchase > drives from that vendor. All vendors could potentially take more than 30 seconds to complete ATA commands such as FLUSH CACHE EXT, in extreme cases. Jeff - 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/