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From: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>
To: Alan <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>, Ric Wheeler <ric@emc.com>,
	Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>,
	linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] libata: reduce ATA command timeout to 7secs
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 11:13:44 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45C36338.60803@rtr.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070202153929.33f4a806@localhost.localdomain>

Alan wrote:
>..
> Give it 7 seconds for a command to complete. At that point you need to
> have a chat with the drive since its probably gone AWOL. If you get an
> error within 7 seconds then its different.

7 seconds is not enough for current drives to report back.
Adding another (8 seconds total) is enough, but I prefer to
see a little margin there, so call it 10 seconds.

Cheers

  reply	other threads:[~2007-02-02 16:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-02  6:37 [PATCH] libata: reduce ATA command timeout to 7secs Tejun Heo
2007-02-02 10:08 ` Alan
2007-02-02 11:49   ` Tejun Heo
2007-02-02 13:25 ` Ric Wheeler
2007-02-02 15:12   ` Tejun Heo
2007-02-02 15:39     ` Alan
2007-02-02 16:13       ` Mark Lord [this message]
2007-02-02 16:43         ` Eric D. Mudama
2007-02-02 18:47           ` Alan
2007-02-02 23:00             ` Eric D. Mudama
2007-02-03 23:34             ` Ric Wheeler
2007-02-03  4:31       ` Tejun Heo
2007-02-03 19:59         ` Alan
2007-02-03 19:50           ` Mark Lord
2007-02-02 16:12 ` Mark Lord
2007-02-03  4:45   ` Tejun Heo

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