From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Greaves Subject: Re: LibPATA code issues / 2.6.15.4 Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2006 17:33:18 +0000 Message-ID: <4405DADE.10206@dgreaves.com> References: <43F2050B.8020006@dgreaves.com> <200602141300.37118.lkml@rtr.ca> <440040B4.8030808@dgreaves.com> <440083B4.3030307@rtr.ca> <4400A1BF.7020109@rtr.ca> <4400B439.8050202@dgreaves.com> <4401122A.3010908@rtr.ca> <44017B4B.3030900@dgreaves.com> <4401B560.40702@rtr.ca> <4403704E.4090109@rtr.ca> <4403A84C.6010804@gmail.com> <4403CEA9.4080603@rtr.ca> <44042863.2050703@dgreaves.com> <44046074.4070201@rtr.ca> <1141139776.3089.78.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from s2.ukfsn.org ([217.158.120.143]:25534 "EHLO mail.ukfsn.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751493AbWCARdE (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Mar 2006 12:33:04 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1141139776.3089.78.camel@localhost.localdomain> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Alan Cox Cc: Mark Lord , Tejun Heo , Jeff Garzik , Justin Piszcz , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, IDE/ATA development list , albertcc@tw.ibm.com, axboe@suse.de, Linus Torvalds Alan Cox wrote: >On Maw, 2006-02-28 at 09:38 -0500, Mark Lord wrote: > > >>The error handling still sucks, regardless of FUA. >>All of this nonsense about "Medium Error" is pure bogosity here. >> >> > >I've flipped my tree to report Aborted Command. Not sure there is a >better scsi sense match for "it broke and I dont know why" > > As a user I prefer It Broke And I Dont Know Why to Aborted Command (honesty is the best policy) I certainly hate Medium Error as modern hard disks seem to be flakier than ever. David