Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751795AbWCARdG (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Mar 2006 12:33:06 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751789AbWCARdF (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Mar 2006 12:33:05 -0500 Received: from s2.ukfsn.org ([217.158.120.143]:25534 "EHLO mail.ukfsn.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751493AbWCARdE (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Mar 2006 12:33:04 -0500 Message-ID: <4405DADE.10206@dgreaves.com> Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2006 17:33:18 +0000 From: David Greaves User-Agent: Debian Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051017) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Cox Cc: Mark Lord , Tejun Heo , Jeff Garzik , Justin Piszcz , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, IDE/ATA development list , albertcc@tw.ibm.com, axboe@suse.de, Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: LibPATA code issues / 2.6.15.4 References: <43F2050B.8020006@dgreaves.com> <200602141300.37118.lkml@rtr.ca> <440040B4.8030808@dgreaves.com> <440083B4.3030307@rtr.ca> <4400A1BF.7020109@rtr.ca> <4400B439.8050202@dgreaves.com> <4401122A.3010908@rtr.ca> <44017B4B.3030900@dgreaves.com> <4401B560.40702@rtr.ca> <4403704E.4090109@rtr.ca> <4403A84C.6010804@gmail.com> <4403CEA9.4080603@rtr.ca> <44042863.2050703@dgreaves.com> <44046074.4070201@rtr.ca> <1141139776.3089.78.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1141139776.3089.78.camel@localhost.localdomain> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.93.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 777 Lines: 30 Alan Cox wrote: >On Maw, 2006-02-28 at 09:38 -0500, Mark Lord wrote: > > >>The error handling still sucks, regardless of FUA. >>All of this nonsense about "Medium Error" is pure bogosity here. >> >> > >I've flipped my tree to report Aborted Command. Not sure there is a >better scsi sense match for "it broke and I dont know why" > > As a user I prefer It Broke And I Dont Know Why to Aborted Command (honesty is the best policy) I certainly hate Medium Error as modern hard disks seem to be flakier than ever. David - 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/