Re: libata error handling

Kasper Sandberg
2007-01-06T19:08:35Z

On Sat, 2007-01-06 at 13:01 -0600, Robert Hancock wrote:
> Kasper Sandberg wrote:
> > On Sat, 2007-01-06 at 12:21 -0600, Robert Hancock wrote:
> >> Kasper Sandberg wrote:
> >>> i have heard that libata has much better error handling (this is what
> >>> made me try it), and from initial observations, that appears to be very
> >>> true, however, im wondering, is there something i can do to get
> >>> extremely verbose information from libata? for example if it corrects
> >>> errors? cause i'd really like to know if it still happens, and if i
> >>> perhaps get corruption as before, even though not severe.
> >> Any errors, timeouts or retries would be showing up in dmesg..
> > how sure can i be of this? is it 100% sure that i have not encountered
> > this error then?
>
> Pretty sure, I'm quite certain libata never does any silent error recovery..
okay, i suppose i face two possibilities then:
1: libata drivers are simply better, and the error does not occur
because of driver bugs in the old ide drivers
2: it hasnt happened to me on libata yet (though this is also abit
weird, as it has now ran far longer than were previously required to hit
the errors)
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