Re: Driver retries disk errors.

[Alan Cox]

On Maw, 2004-08-31 at 16:56, Erik Mouw wrote:
> The SCSI disk driver has been doing a single retry for quite some time
> and it hasn't really bitten people. Why would the IDE disk driver be
> different? The only case I can imagine a retry would be OK, is when we
> get an UDMA CRC error (caused by bad cables).

Retries also pop up in other less obvious cases and conveniently paper
over a wide variety of timeouts, power management quirks and drives just
having a random fit. Eight is probably excessive in all cases.

For non hard disk cases many devices do want and need retry.

Alan

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