From: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
To: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>,
Suleiman Souhlal <ssouhlal@freebsd.org>,
linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] Make the IDE DMA timeout modifiable
Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 00:08:18 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4697DBB2.7020507@ru.mvista.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4697D425.7000300@rtr.ca>
Mark Lord wrote:
>>>> O> >> BTW, why the timeout is so damn long? 2*WAIT_CMD is 20
>>>> secs, and if DMA is not complete or interrupt pending, it may wait
>>>> 10 more secs...
> ..
>>> I've lost the original question from this thread, but the idea of the
>> The original question concerned specifically the DMA command
>> timeout which is twice more than the usual one, WAIT_CMD (10 seconds).
>>> longish
>>> timeouts was that drive *may* be spun down ("standby"), and thus have
>>> to spin
>>> up again to complete media commands. Back then, drives were much
>>> slower at
>>> spinning up than nowadays, and the ATA spec says to allow up to 30
>>> seconds.
>> Well, that doesn't explain the DMA case.
> When a drive is in standby, we don't send it anything special to wake up.
Wait, aren't we sending IDLE on resume step 2 -- looking at
ide-io.cide_start_power_step()?
> Cheers
MBR, Sergei
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-13 20:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-21 1:19 [PATCH 1/3] Make the IDE DMA timeout modifiable Suleiman Souhlal
2007-02-21 1:44 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2007-02-21 2:13 ` Suleiman Souhlal
2007-02-21 2:42 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2007-06-12 19:11 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-06-15 23:23 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2007-07-10 19:10 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-07-13 15:16 ` Alan Cox
2007-07-13 15:12 ` Mark Lord
2007-07-13 15:21 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-07-13 19:36 ` Mark Lord
2007-07-13 19:40 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-07-13 19:46 ` Mark Lord
2007-07-13 20:03 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-07-13 21:00 ` Mark Lord
2007-07-16 19:29 ` Rogier Wolff
2007-07-17 14:18 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-07-13 20:08 ` Sergei Shtylyov [this message]
2007-07-13 20:54 ` Mark Lord
2007-07-13 21:00 ` Mark Lord
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