Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 13:37:32 +0000
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Thierry Vignaud <tvignaud@mandriva.com>
Cc: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>, Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>,
       Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>, Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@yahoo.com>,
       Duane Griffin <duaneg@dghda.com>, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu,
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Subject: Re: document ext3 requirements
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> I remember seeing I/O error on CDs resulting in zillions of retries on
> errors on USB discs resulting in resetting the USB port again & again
> for hours... (CD case is years ago, but I usually see the USB layer
> trying reseting for quite a long time at least once per month)

Most of the CD ones are caused by tools like hal continuing to probe the
device regularly and causing new avalanches of errors.
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