From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751560AbYAOLix (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jan 2008 06:38:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750752AbYAOLin (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jan 2008 06:38:43 -0500 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:43127 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750708AbYAOLim (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jan 2008 06:38:42 -0500 Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 11:35:52 +0000 From: Alan Cox To: Andrew Morton Cc: Georgi Chulkov , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: ATA device reset, shoud I be concerned? Message-ID: <20080115113552.75731bf8@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20080115025435.1e21b703.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <200801140019.20668.g.chulkov@jacobs-university.de> <20080115025435.1e21b703.akpm@linux-foundation.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.2.0 (GTK+ 2.12.3; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Organization: Red Hat UK Cyf., Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SL4 1TE, Y Deyrnas Gyfunol. Cofrestrwyd yng Nghymru a Lloegr o'r rhif cofrestru 3798903 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > > [ 9031.028000] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 > > frozen > > [ 9031.028000] ata1.00: cmd c8/00:08:90:ca:ce/00:00:00:00:00/e0 tag 0 cdb 0x0 > > data 4096 in > > [ 9031.028000] res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 > > (timeout) We got bored of waiting for the drive to respond to our request. I still think we have the timeouts too short or are accounting queue time somewhere we shouldn't as there a few other examples where we don't allow long enough for a drive to retry out and fail with a media error on a bad sector. Alan