From: Eric Mudama <edmudama@gmail.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: James Courtier-Dutton <james@superbug.demon.co.uk>,
Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>,
Rogier Wolff <r.e.wolff@harddisk-recovery.nl>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Driver retries disk errors.
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 10:23:39 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <311601c904090209235759c7a2@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1093952325.32684.7.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 12:38:45 +0100, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> Not really as far as I can tell. It isn't a disk any more, its a storage
> appliance on a funny connector. It already knows a lot about retries
> internally as well as rewriting blocks with high ECC error
> count. In fact you actually have to issue a different command to do
> read/write without retry.
True, but in the later versions of the ATA specification, the retry
option was depreciated. I think you'll find virtually every ATA drive
built today ignores that "suggestion" from the host.
--eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-02 16:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-30 16:39 Driver retries disk errors Rogier Wolff
2004-08-30 17:46 ` Theodore Ts'o
2004-08-30 18:26 ` James Courtier-Dutton
2004-08-30 22:25 ` Rogier Wolff
2004-08-31 11:38 ` Alan Cox
2004-09-02 16:23 ` Eric Mudama [this message]
2004-08-31 15:16 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-08-30 22:17 ` Rogier Wolff
2004-08-31 11:45 ` Alan Cox
2004-08-31 13:45 ` Andre Hedrick
2004-08-31 13:54 ` Rogier Wolff
2004-08-31 14:12 ` Alan Cox
2004-08-31 15:56 ` Erik Mouw
2004-08-31 15:13 ` Alan Cox
2004-08-31 17:00 ` Erik Mouw
2004-08-31 16:12 ` Alan Cox
2004-09-01 15:18 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-09-01 14:46 ` Alan Cox
2004-09-01 18:54 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-09-01 15:28 ` Romano Giannetti
2004-09-01 14:44 ` Alan Cox
2004-09-01 23:14 ` Rogier Wolff
2004-09-02 9:29 ` Alan Cox
2004-09-02 10:54 ` Rogier Wolff
2004-09-02 14:30 ` John Stoffel
2004-09-02 14:59 ` Alan Cox
2004-09-02 16:07 ` John Stoffel
2004-09-02 16:26 ` Eric Mudama
2004-08-31 22:55 ` Christer Weinigel
[not found] <fa.d48te6f.1ol6tbb@ifi.uio.no>
[not found] ` <fa.eti1vu1.2nqlj5@ifi.uio.no>
2004-08-31 0:17 ` Robert Hancock
2004-09-01 23:04 ` Rogier Wolff
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