Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2008 16:41:20 +0100 From: "Julian Stacey" <jhs@berklix.org> To: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@freebsd.org> Cc: votdev@gmx.de, sos@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Artem Belevich <fbsdlist@src.cx>, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Western Digital hard disks and ATA timeouts Message-ID: <200811071541.mA7FfKEF021236@fire.js.berklix.net> In-Reply-To: Your message "Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:36:26 PST." <20081107083626.GA1583@icarus.home.lan>
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> But regardless of TLER being toggleable, FreeBSD's ATA command timeout > of 5 seconds is too aggressive, and should be increased. Likewise, the > value should be a sysctl, so those who do want such aggressive values Once it migrates from a constant to sysctl variable, could kernel maybe also sniff the drives, & automatically set appropriate value ? (Just an idea ? :-) Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey: BSDUnixLinux C Prog Admin SysEng Consult Munich www.berklix.com Mail plain ASCII text. HTML & Base64 text are spam. www.asciiribbon.org
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