Messages in this thread | | | From | Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <> | Subject | Re: ATA device reset, shoud I be concerned? | Date | Tue, 22 Jan 2008 02:31:22 +0100 |
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On Monday 21 January 2008, Tejun Heo wrote:
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> > Old IDE says it works for PATA. For SATA I can see it might need more > > care and you might simply not be able to get the info. > > Old IDE often locks up the machine hard after timeouts. I'm all for
Could you point me to some bugreports?
I would like to know more about hosts/conditions for which it happens.
> gathering more info but benefit vs. risk equation just doesn't look good > here. Why take risk for a rare device which forgets to raise IRQ on > media error? If such behavior is wide spread among PATA drives && we > can verify that TF register access after timeout is safe for PATA > controllers, sure, but currently we aren't sure about either.
Thanks, Bart
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