Re: libata: dma, io error messages

[Paul Jakma]

On Fri, 6 Aug 2004, Jeff Garzik wrote:

> libata does not (yet) retry cable errors, for example.  Paul, don't 
> automatically assume the disk is bad, try swapping cables.

Hmmm, I'll see if that's possible, though:

- My spare cables are exact same brand
- I dont know how to 'cycle' the drive

(iirc, libata doesnt yet support hotplug and/or the old "reset the 
bus by doing echo 'scsi remove-single-device' and then 
'add-single-device" trick)

ie, is possible to avoid a reboot?

also, the drive has been running fine since late may with this cable, 
and two other identical cables/drives are still happily running. 
Also, before putting the drives into use, I did some load-testing 
(bonnie++) which they survived quite happily.

> 	Jeff

regards,
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