From: Rogier Wolff <R.E.Wolff@harddisk-recovery.nl>
To: James Courtier-Dutton <James@superbug.demon.co.uk>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Driver retries disk errors.
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 00:25:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040830222545.GB31968@bitwizard.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41337153.60505@superbug.demon.co.uk>
On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 07:26:27PM +0100, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> It does the same retries with CD-ROM and DVDs, and if the retries fail,
> it disables DMA!
As a matter of fact, we've had a computer where I tried to
get an MFM drive working. There I had changed lots of settings
in the BIOS to disable the onboard IDE and stuff like that.
When we tried to get IDE back working, we encountered the
situation where the secondary channel would not DMA unless
<something in the BIOS>. There the strategy "disable DMA"
works: the drive is "switched down" and something works.
I remember from the old days that this was: "To enable
the user to continue to use the system to fix the problem".
However, in practise, this failure is not something that
you can fix "if you have access to your drive", but something
you get to fix in the BIOS. So does this still help?
Well, maybe PIO is so "basic" that it will always work,
and is a good "last resort'.
The "same retries with CDROM" stems from the fact that the
code was initially duplicated. (as in cp ide-disk.c ide-cd.c)
The fact that DVDs are nowadays writable should be a hint that
the drivers may be better off getting merged one of these days.
Roger.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-30 22:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ 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 [this message]
2004-08-31 11:38 ` Alan Cox
2004-09-02 16:23 ` Eric Mudama
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
2004-08-31 22:55 ` Christer Weinigel
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