Re: Driver retries disk errors.

[Eric Mudama]

On Wed, 01 Sep 2004 15:44:38 +0100, Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Things like Xine are precisely the cases where you want retry turned off
> by the application - if the sector is bad then you want to skip when
> playing movies, while you don't want to skip while writing out your
> database

This is what they're trying to accomplish with ATA-7 Streaming Feature
Set ... tell the drive to just read through errors and send the
garbage, without doing error recovery, for high bandwidth media
readback.  The first drives to support this feature set will be coming
out relatively soon...
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