On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 04:54:31PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > I'm not sure what to do if this had been the only disk in the system. > > Maybe if the eror reate exceed 100/minute, then dma is turned off > > permanently? > > Turn off UDMA and you turn off cable side error protection, so if your > error is caused by noise you just did the electronic version of a long > walk off a short pier. Right. Yes. Clearly, I must be debugging with half a brain, here. --linas - 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