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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: libata todo item: retry certain classes of errors
Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 20:50:13 -0500
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Alan Cox wrote:
> On Gwe, 2005-01-07 at 04:33, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 
>>libata error handling is still of the "stupid simple" variety.  While 
>>that makes it easy to verify, it also means that we don't always recover 
>>  from some situations.
>>
>>Right now, libata simply returns an error back to the SCSI layer.
> 
> 
> I did actually arrange that all the SCSI errors it faked caused the
> right retry behaviour at the SCSI level when I did that. Perhaps I
> should have commented that fact.

Well the retry needs to e.g. include a bus reset prior to retrying.

	Jeff