From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: libata todo item: retry certain classes of errors
Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 12:24:11 -0500
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Alan Cox wrote:
> On Mer, 2005-02-02 at 01:50, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 
>>Alan Cox wrote:
>>
>>>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.
> 
> 
> Thats possibly true for some situations. You might also want to avoid
> issuing resets as much as you can because they are a rather good source
> of "my drive
> went away" error reports with the IDE layer (and they take forever).

libata does a reset at the beginning of the probe...

	Jeff