Re: Driver retries disk errors.

[Bill Davidsen]

James Courtier-Dutton wrote:

> It does the same retries with CD-ROM and DVDs, and if the retries fail, 
> it disables DMA! It even does the retries when reading CD-Audio.
> Maybe there should be a "retrys" setting that can be set by hdparm, then 
> we could set the retry counts, and what happens when a retry fails on a 
> per device basis.

Thinking hotswap, I could suggest that "device category" would be useful 
for this. Yes, you could build policy into the plug code, but it still 
needs to get the policy from somewhere.

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