Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 8 Nov 2004 09:55:48 +0100 | From | Jens Axboe <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/3] WIN_* -> ATA_CMD_* conversion: update WIN_* users to use ATA_CMD_* |
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On Fri, Nov 05 2004, Chris Wedgwood wrote: > > In particular, most Maxtor and Western Digital Drives will not > > recover from errors with this command sequence. The preferred error > > recovery is to do a reset followed by a set features, because that > > is what Windows does (as told to me by a drive vendor). > > I assume for Windows they do that for all drives? Even older ones? > > I also wonder what happens with TCQ when you get an error? Do you > just retry everything outstanding?
Any error typically causes an invalidation of the queue, so yes you just start from scratch. Since PATA doesn't support TCQ anymore, it's not a worry though :)
-- Jens Axboe
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