Re: ata: lost disk contact errors [was: Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired!]

[Soren Schmidt]

It seems Vallo Kallaste wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 11, 1999 at 12:57:04PM -0800, Doug White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
>wrote:
> 
> > > I'm getting the "lost disk contact" messages every now and then, but
> > > only on our mp3 machine with PIIX3 controller and IBM UDMA/66 disk. It's
> > > an PPro machine with Intel mobo. Can it be related to newer IBM disks?
> > 
> > Depends on what 'now and then' is.  The Deskstar series of drives was not
> > intended to run 24/7, and therefore shut themselves down every week to
> > clean the heads.  
> 
> Mhm, now I remember the discussion in -current list some time ago. It
> can be, yes, but I need to follow the logs to say for sure. About month
> ago the messages appeared several times per day, not per week.
> Thank you refreshing my memory :-)

Well, I use alot of IBM's and I've newer seen them do this...
Have you tried upping the timeout in ata-disk.c about line 426 to 
say 10s and see if it changes behavior ??

-Søren


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