Re: SATA exceptions with 2.6.20-rc5

From: Jeff Garzik
Date: Mon Jan 15 2007 - 08:43:26 EST


Jens Axboe wrote:
I'd be surprised if the device would not obey the 7 second timeout rule
that seems to be set in stone and not allow more dirty in-drive cache
than it could flush out in approximately that time.

AFAIK Windows flush-cache timeout is 30 seconds, not 7 as with other commands...


And BUSY should also be set for that case, as Robert indicates.

Agreed.

Jeff



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