Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964881AbWBTK5F (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Feb 2006 05:57:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964883AbWBTK5F (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Feb 2006 05:57:05 -0500 Received: from dtp.xs4all.nl ([80.126.206.180]:56784 "HELO abra2.bitwizard.nl") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S964881AbWBTK5D (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Feb 2006 05:57:03 -0500 Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 11:57:00 +0100 From: Erik Mouw To: Jan Knutar Cc: Michael Tokarev , Linux-kernel Subject: Re: readahead logic and I/O errors Message-ID: <20060220105700.GB5918@harddisk-recovery.nl> References: <43F39089.2050302@tls.msk.ru> <200602160853.16297.jk-lkml@sci.fi> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200602160853.16297.jk-lkml@sci.fi> Organization: Harddisk-recovery.com User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 903 Lines: 23 On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 08:53:16AM +0200, Jan Knutar wrote: > Sorry for hijacking the thread, but on another note, is there > anyway to tell linux to tell the drive to not bother retrying > read errors? Would be perfect for streaming video from a > CD or DVD. Usually video players have excellent error > recovery themselves, which probably looks better on the > screen than the movie coming to a grinding halt due to > the retries. FWIW, ATAPI defines a streaming IO command set, but that isn't uses by any driver. Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH, Delft, The Netherlands - 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/