From: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PATA timeouts on old thinkpad
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:31:33 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081121083133.GA23336@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081121003723.03bcef7e@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 12:37:23AM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:25:21 +0000
> Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Last weekend I upgraded my old Thinkpad from Fedora Core 2 to F9
> > (a 2.6.9 kernel to a 2.6.25 kernel). The old 2.6.9 kernel was
> > using the IDE drivers, and there have been no issues with IDE on
> > this hardware until this upgrade.
>
> Can you double the timeouts for block I/O commands. The libata core uses
> 30 second timeouts for a lot of stuff and some PATA drives really do want
> 60.
>
> Other than that there really isn't any difference in the settings the two
> drivers use as they are all written up exactly in the Intel docs.
I'm not sure that lengthening the timeout is going to help - with
the older IDE drivers, I've never had the laptop wait on disk IO
for longer than about 5 seconds even when the disk has been spun
down.
Is this timeout parameter is only changeable by rebuilding the kernel?
--
Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of:
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-21 8:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-21 0:25 PATA timeouts on old thinkpad Russell King
2008-11-21 0:37 ` Alan Cox
2008-11-21 8:31 ` Russell King [this message]
2008-11-24 12:48 ` Russell King
2009-06-10 23:36 ` Russell King
2009-06-11 11:05 ` Alan Cox
2009-06-11 11:29 ` Russell King
2009-06-11 11:40 ` Alan Cox
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