On Monday 05 January 2009 05:19:13 Alan Cox wrote: > You could of course just learn to use the functions the kernel provides. > If you want to recover disk blocks without retrying you can do that via > SG_IO. If you want to adjust the timeout and retry levels you can do that > too via sysfs. Good to know, but "my laptop hard drive just died" is not the optimal time to learn these sorts of things. > Alan Rob -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html