> When libata reports a MEDIUM_ERROR to us, we *know* it's non-recoverable, > as the drive itself has already done internal retries (libata uses the > "with retry" ATA opcodes for this).
This depends on the firmware. Some of the "raid firmware" drives don't appear to do retries in firmware. > But meanwhile, we still have the original issue too, where a single stray > bad sector can blow a system out of the water, because the mid-layer > currently aborts everything after it from a large merged request. > > Thus the original patch from this thread. :) Agreed - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
