On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 12:37:23AM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > On Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:25:21 +0000 > Russell King <rmk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Last weekend I upgraded my old Thinkpad from Fedora Core 2 to F9 > > (a 2.6.9 kernel to a 2.6.25 kernel). The old 2.6.9 kernel was > > using the IDE drivers, and there have been no issues with IDE on > > this hardware until this upgrade. > > Can you double the timeouts for block I/O commands. The libata core uses > 30 second timeouts for a lot of stuff and some PATA drives really do want > 60. > > Other than that there really isn't any difference in the settings the two > drivers use as they are all written up exactly in the Intel docs. I'm not sure that lengthening the timeout is going to help - with the older IDE drivers, I've never had the laptop wait on disk IO for longer than about 5 seconds even when the disk has been spun down. Is this timeout parameter is only changeable by rebuilding the kernel? -- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: -- 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
