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From: Mark Lord <mlord@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: faulty disk testing
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2006 10:15:30 -0400
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ata_port_wait_eh

Tejun Heo wrote:
> ..
> For Ric's case, I'm waiting for more info.  If EH is looping forever 
> without reporting to upper layer, it definitely needs fixing, but I 
> don't think that's the case.

What happens with the loop in ata_port_wait_eh() for a drive
which never succeeds in the reset/reinit phase?

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