On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 2:04 PM, Bokhan Artem <APTEM@xxxxxx> wrote: > But as I understand my problem, all retries and delays are made inside linux > kernel, not inside hardware... > AIUI you have both. And they multiply, so if the hardware is doing X retries per attempt and the kernel is doing Y retries, then the total retries is close to X*(Y+1). To get the fastest possible failure mode you need to reduce both X and Y. Greg -- Greg Freemyer Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer First 99 Days Litigation White Paper - http://www.norcrossgroup.com/forms/whitepapers/99%20Days%20whitepaper.pdf The Norcross Group The Intersection of Evidence & Technology http://www.norcrossgroup.com -- 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