> your system requirements are, what the system is trying to do (i.e., > when trying to recover a failing but not dead yet disk, IO errors should > be as quick as possible and we should choose an IO scheduler that does > not combine IO's). If this is the right strategy for disk recovery for a given type of device then this ought to be an automatic strategy. Most end users will not have the knowledge to frob about in sysfs, and if the bad sector hits at the wrong moment a sensible automatic recovery strategy is going to do the right thing faster than human intervention, which may be some hours away. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html