On 11-12-15 01:38 PM, Robert Hancock wrote: > On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 5:01 AM, Juergen Beisert <jbe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: .. >> As far as I understand the problem of this kind of errors is for the multi >> sector write case. The framework does not know what sectors fails, so the >> question is: does it repeat the whole multi sector sequence or what else it >> does? > > The entire request should get retried. I'm not so sure that is correct. The Linux IDE stack will not retry the completed sectors (those which were successfully transfered in multiple-sector blocks). Not sure what libata does here. Cheers -- 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
