From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Driver retries disk errors.
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 11:16:47 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ch24b2$8kk$1@gatekeeper.tmr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41337153.60505@superbug.demon.co.uk>
James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> It does the same retries with CD-ROM and DVDs, and if the retries fail,
> it disables DMA! It even does the retries when reading CD-Audio.
> Maybe there should be a "retrys" setting that can be set by hdparm, then
> we could set the retry counts, and what happens when a retry fails on a
> per device basis.
Thinking hotswap, I could suggest that "device category" would be useful
for this. Yes, you could build policy into the plug code, but it still
needs to get the policy from somewhere.
--
-bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com)
"The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the
last possible moment - but no longer" -me
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-31 15:17 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
2004-08-31 15:16 ` Bill Davidsen [this message]
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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