From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark Lord Subject: Re: [PATCH] libata: reduce ATA command timeout to 7secs Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 11:13:44 -0500 Message-ID: <45C36338.60803@rtr.ca> References: <20070202063748.GC1625@htj.dyndns.org> <45C33BCF.2040506@emc.com> <45C354CF.1020500@gmail.com> <20070202153929.33f4a806@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from rtr.ca ([64.26.128.89]:3006 "EHLO mail.rtr.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1945966AbXBBQNp (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Feb 2007 11:13:45 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20070202153929.33f4a806@localhost.localdomain> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Alan Cc: Tejun Heo , Ric Wheeler , Jeff Garzik , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Alan wrote: >.. > Give it 7 seconds for a command to complete. At that point you need to > have a chat with the drive since its probably gone AWOL. If you get an > error within 7 seconds then its different. 7 seconds is not enough for current drives to report back. Adding another (8 seconds total) is enough, but I prefer to see a little margin there, so call it 10 seconds. Cheers