Jim Paris wrote: > Still, it seems that some improvements could be made to the EH when > this sort of thing happens. For example, after "speed down requested > but no transfer mode left" a few times in a row, maybe it would make > sense to just fail the disk and give up. That would have allowed > higher layers like MD to recover. That's SD retrying sector-by-sector a large request as libata doesn't report proper failed sector info. Please try 2.6.20. md will fail the drive after a few errors. Patches to improve EH behavior further went into 2.6.21 devel tree and some are pending. Thanks. -- tejun - 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