26 Apr
2005
26 Apr
'05
6:26 a.m.
>>>> "Eric" == Eric Smith
<eric at brouhaha.com> writes:
Eric> Paul wrote:
> That would make sense. The normal assumption is
that drivers do
> retry.
Eric> Not any more. SCSI and ATA drives are supposed to do that on
Eric> their own, so if they return an error to the host, that's after
Eric> they've retried multiple times.
Ok, my point really was that retrying *above* the driver layer isn't
likely to be useful.
Meanwhile, the disk drivers I know do include error recovery with
retries after a disk returns an error. Second guessing disk drives
turns out to be useful.
paul