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From: Alan <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] libata: reduce ATA command timeout to 7secs
Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2007 19:59:30 +0000
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> So, I agree with Mark here.  We should retry and fail bio-by-bio.  The
> end effect wouldn't be much worse than block-by-block while taking much
> less time.

And perhaps flip the bio list backwards as well 8) ?