linux-kernel - Re: ATA device reset, shoud I be concerned?

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Message-ID: <20080121130256.2443d7c1@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Date:	Mon, 21 Jan 2008 13:02:56 +0000
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Tejun Heo <htejun@...il.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Georgi Chulkov <g.chulkov@...obs-university.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-ide@...r.kernel.org,
	Mark Lord <liml@....ca>
Subject: Re: ATA device reset, shoud I be concerned?

> transmission failure as timeouts.  Of course, if we're ticking the timer
> while the command is not in flight, that's a bug.  If there are cases
> where 30 secs isn't enough, can you please point me to those reports?

I have been, in bugzilla - the raid failure example where old IDE
eventually reports a media error while libata keeps timing out,
resetting, repeating.

Alan
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