Re: [PATCH 1/3] Make the IDE DMA timeout modifiable

[Mark Lord]

Alan Cox wrote:
> O> >>    BTW, why the timeout is so damn long? 2*WAIT_CMD is 20 secs, and if DMA is 
> > > > not complete or interrupt pending, it may wait 10 more secs...
> > > I really don't remember... :)
> > > Maybe Mark or Alan could help with figuring this out.
> >     They also have probably forgotten. :-)
>
> Because that value seemed to work ok. Mark set the timeouts way back in
> history and I never touched most of them.

I've lost the original question from this thread, but the idea of the longish
timeouts was that drive *may* be spun down ("standby"), and thus have to spin
up again to complete media commands.  Back then, drives were much slower at
spinning up than nowadays, and the ATA spec says to allow up to 30 seconds.

So..
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