linux-kernel - Re: libata error handling

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Date:	Sat, 06 Jan 2007 13:01:12 -0600
From:	Robert Hancock <hancockr@...w.ca>
To:	Kasper Sandberg <lkml@...anurb.dk>
Cc:	LKML Mailinglist <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, jgarzik@...ox.com,
	alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk
Subject: Re: libata error handling

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..

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