On Tue, 20 May 2008 02:17:52 +0900 Tejun Heo <htejun@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > EH retries were delayed by 5 seconds to ensure that resets don't occur > back-to-back. However, this 5 second delay is superflous or excessive > in many cases. For example, after IDENTIFY times out, there's no > reason to wait five more seconds before retrying. You'll crash some ATAPI CD-ROM drives without that delay - at least for PATA. As in power cycle required to get it back. Perhaps we should check cable type here ? -- 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