From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark Lord Subject: Re: Analysis of EH on Andi's dying disk and stuff to discuss about Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 16:53:19 -0400 Message-ID: <47EEAC3F.2070004@rtr.ca> References: <20080328093055.GA16736@basil.nowhere.org> <47EDECE5.50309@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from rtr.ca ([76.10.145.34]:1975 "EHLO mail.rtr.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754251AbYC2UxU (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Mar 2008 16:53:20 -0400 In-Reply-To: <47EDECE5.50309@gmail.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Tejun Heo Cc: Andi Kleen , Jeff Garzik , Alan Cox , IDE/ATA development list , ric@emc.com Tejun Heo wrote: .. > So, to handle the common cases better, libata EH times out resets > quickly. The first two tries are 10 seconds each and most devices > get reset properly before it hits the end of the second reset try > even if it needs to spin up. What takes the longest is the third .. I think that 10 seconds timeout is just *slightly* too short. There are drives here somewhere, that always fail the first attempt because they take about 12 seconds to spin-up and begin communicating. Cheers