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From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Driver retries disk errors.
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 11:16:47 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ch24b2$8kk$1@gatekeeper.tmr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41337153.60505@superbug.demon.co.uk>

James Courtier-Dutton wrote:

> It does the same retries with CD-ROM and DVDs, and if the retries fail, 
> it disables DMA! It even does the retries when reading CD-Audio.
> Maybe there should be a "retrys" setting that can be set by hdparm, then 
> we could set the retry counts, and what happens when a retry fails on a 
> per device basis.

Thinking hotswap, I could suggest that "device category" would be useful 
for this. Yes, you could build policy into the plug code, but it still 
needs to get the policy from somewhere.

-- 
    -bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com)
"The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the
  last possible moment - but no longer"  -me

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-08-31 15:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-30 16:39 Driver retries disk errors Rogier Wolff
2004-08-30 17:46 ` Theodore Ts'o
2004-08-30 18:26   ` James Courtier-Dutton
2004-08-30 22:25     ` Rogier Wolff
2004-08-31 11:38     ` Alan Cox
2004-09-02 16:23       ` Eric Mudama
2004-08-31 15:16     ` Bill Davidsen [this message]
2004-08-30 22:17   ` Rogier Wolff
2004-08-31 11:45 ` Alan Cox
2004-08-31 13:45   ` Andre Hedrick
2004-08-31 13:54   ` Rogier Wolff
2004-08-31 14:12     ` Alan Cox
2004-08-31 15:56       ` Erik Mouw
2004-08-31 15:13         ` Alan Cox
2004-08-31 17:00           ` Erik Mouw
2004-08-31 16:12             ` Alan Cox
2004-09-01 15:18               ` Bill Davidsen
2004-09-01 14:46                 ` Alan Cox
2004-09-01 18:54                   ` Bill Davidsen
2004-09-01 15:28               ` Romano Giannetti
2004-09-01 14:44                 ` Alan Cox
2004-09-01 23:14                   ` Rogier Wolff
2004-09-02  9:29                     ` Alan Cox
2004-09-02 10:54                       ` Rogier Wolff
2004-09-02 14:30                       ` John Stoffel
2004-09-02 14:59                         ` Alan Cox
2004-09-02 16:07                           ` John Stoffel
2004-09-02 16:26                   ` Eric Mudama
2004-08-31 22:55           ` Christer Weinigel
     [not found] <fa.d48te6f.1ol6tbb@ifi.uio.no>
     [not found] ` <fa.eti1vu1.2nqlj5@ifi.uio.no>
2004-08-31  0:17   ` Robert Hancock
2004-09-01 23:04     ` Rogier Wolff

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