Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 2 Sep 2004 10:23:39 -0600 | From | Eric Mudama <> | Subject | Re: Driver retries disk errors. |
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On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 12:38:45 +0100, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote: > Not really as far as I can tell. It isn't a disk any more, its a storage > appliance on a funny connector. It already knows a lot about retries > internally as well as rewriting blocks with high ECC error > count. In fact you actually have to issue a different command to do > read/write without retry.
True, but in the later versions of the ATA specification, the retry option was depreciated. I think you'll find virtually every ATA drive built today ignores that "suggestion" from the host.
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