Alan wrote:
.. Give it 7 seconds for a command to complete. At that point you need to have a chat with the drive since its probably gone AWOL. If you get an error within 7 seconds then its different.
7 seconds is not enough for current drives to report back. Adding another (8 seconds total) is enough, but I prefer to see a little margin there, so call it 10 seconds. Cheers - 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