From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268696AbUHaPRV (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Aug 2004 11:17:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268693AbUHaPRU (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Aug 2004 11:17:20 -0400 Received: from mail.tmr.com ([216.238.38.203]:262 "EHLO gatekeeper.tmr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268717AbUHaPP5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Aug 2004 11:15:57 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Path: not-for-mail From: Bill Davidsen Newsgroups: mail.linux-kernel Subject: Re: Driver retries disk errors. Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 11:16:47 -0400 Organization: TMR Associates, Inc Message-ID: References: <20040830174632.GA21419@thunk.org><20040830174632.GA21419@thunk.org> <41337153.60505@superbug.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: gatekeeper.tmr.com 1093964962 8852 192.168.12.100 (31 Aug 2004 15:09:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@tmr.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <41337153.60505@superbug.demon.co.uk> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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