Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 04 Mar 2003 17:55:51 -0500 | From | Mathias Kretschmer <> | Subject | Re: IDE DVD reading & error handling |
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> I think its perfectly doable to set the maximum retries per > device. Have a look at the current ide_error() and the error: handler > in the relevant ide drivers (notably ide-cd). > > >>I wonder if it would be possible to tune the IDE layer by i.e. >>reducing the number of retries and disabling the controller reset, etc. > > > A lot of the time you have to go through the controller reset. However > cutting the retries down and having good readahead management on the > I/O thread ought to still cope with that.
that's what I'm hoping for :)
Would it also be possible/make sense to never switch from DMA to PIO mode since those DVD read errors are most likely not a DMA problem ?
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