From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Mudama Subject: Re: Driver retries disk errors. Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 10:23:39 -0600 Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <311601c904090209235759c7a2@mail.gmail.com> References: <20040830163931.GA4295@bitwizard.nl> <20040830174632.GA21419@thunk.org> <41337153.60505@superbug.demon.co.uk> <1093952325.32684.7.camel@localhost.localdomain> Reply-To: Eric Mudama Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from rproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.170.206]:35490 "EHLO mproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268657AbUIBQXk (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Sep 2004 12:23:40 -0400 Received: by mproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 76so300315rnl for ; Thu, 02 Sep 2004 09:23:39 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1093952325.32684.7.camel@localhost.localdomain> List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Alan Cox Cc: James Courtier-Dutton , Theodore Ts'o , Rogier Wolff , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 12:38:45 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > Not really as far as I can tell. It isn't a disk any more, its a storage > appliance on a funny connector. It already knows a lot about retries > internally as well as rewriting blocks with high ECC error > count. In fact you actually have to issue a different command to do > read/write without retry. True, but in the later versions of the ATA specification, the retry option was depreciated. I think you'll find virtually every ATA drive built today ignores that "suggestion" from the host. --eric