Russell Sloan wrote: > I'm using SG_IO and I'm curently passing in: > sg_io_hdr_t.timeout = 5; > > This should be a 5 ms timeout, correct? I've tried a few different values, from 5 to 1000 and it still takes 90+ seconds for it to timeout and return to my program. > > I will try HDIO and see if that behaves any differently. It might be retrying. Can you post dmesg after the command? -- 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