From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Subject: Re: libata retry - disable?
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 02:50:28 -0400
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Molle Bestefich wrote:
> Does anyone know of a way to disable libata's 5-time retry when a read fails?
> 
> It has the effect of causing every failed sector read to take 6
> seconds before it fails, causing raid5 rebuilds to go awfully slow. 
> It's generally undesirable too, when you've got RAID on top that can
> write replacement data onto the failed sectors..

libata does not retry at all.

	Jeff