From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932756AbVHSXjn (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Aug 2005 19:39:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932346AbVHSXjn (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Aug 2005 19:39:43 -0400 Received: from clock-tower.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:54197 "EHLO localhost.localdomain") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965184AbVHSXjm (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Aug 2005 19:39:42 -0400 Subject: Re: dying disk results in unusable system From: Alan Cox To: dean gaudet Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 19:11:42 +0100 Message-Id: <1124475102.32050.9.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.2 (2.2.2-5) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Iau, 2005-08-18 at 17:31 -0700, dean gaudet wrote: > thoughts? i'm going to hang onto this bad disk so i can try out patches... > if folks point me in the right direction(s) i could even work on fixes. One problem at least is that unlike SCSI the IDE layer never gives up on a device. That combined with a slow, polling heavy recovery process and the fact master and slave can't be addressed together in IDE hoses stuff pretty badly. Alan