Re: Re: PATCH for ide_floppy

[Jens Axboe]

On Fri, Jul 01 2005, Manfred.Scherer.Mhm@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> it's not really a performance issue but more a timeout issue.
> 'IDEFLOPPY_TICKS_DELAY  60' avoids error messages in /var/log/messages
> like 'reset ide ...'.
> Without the idefloppy_timer_expiry the data transfer to the ide-floppy
> is pending a long time between some transfer of data. The floppy LED
> indicated this too.
> With kernel 2.4.x I've never had this problem.

Ah, so you did see lots of timeouts. The solution is, I suspect, just
to adjust the ticks to be based off HZ like Bart suggests.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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