Date: Sat, 06 Jan 2007 13:01:12 -0600
From: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>
Subject: Re: libata error handling
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To: Kasper Sandberg <lkml@metanurb.dk>
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Kasper Sandberg wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-01-06 at 12:21 -0600, Robert Hancock wrote:
>> Kasper Sandberg wrote:
>>> i have heard that libata has much better error handling (this is what
>>> made me try it), and from initial observations, that appears to be very
>>> true, however, im wondering, is there something i can do to get
>>> extremely verbose information from libata? for example if it corrects
>>> errors? cause i'd really like to know if it still happens, and if i
>>> perhaps get corruption as before, even though not severe.
>> Any errors, timeouts or retries would be showing up in dmesg..
> how sure can i be of this? is it 100% sure that i have not encountered
> this error then?

Pretty sure, I'm quite certain libata never does any silent error recovery..

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