Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: [BK PATCHES] add ata scsi driver | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 27 May 2003 01:16:58 +0100 |
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On Llu, 2003-05-26 at 22:34, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Even if we drop our timeouts from 30 seconds (or whatever they are now) > down to just a few seconds, that's a _loooong_ time, and we should be a > lot more proactive about things. Audio/video stuff tends to want things > with latencies in the tenth-of-a-second range, even when they buffer > things up internally to hide the worst cases.
Many IDE drives will take several seconds to give up on a failing I/O because they do all the recovery themselves. IDE CD/DVD can be especially bad for this.
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