On 1/6/07, Kasper Sandberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Sat, 2007-01-06 at 13:01 -0600, Robert Hancock wrote: > Kasper Sandberg wrote: > > On Sat, 2007-01-06 at 12:21 -0600, Robert Hancock wrote: > >> Kasper Sandberg wrote: > >>> i have heard that libata has much better error handling (this is what > >>> made me try it), and from initial observations, that appears to be very > >>> true, however, im wondering, is there something i can do to get > >>> extremely verbose information from libata? for example if it corrects > >>> errors? cause i'd really like to know if it still happens, and if i > >>> perhaps get corruption as before, even though not severe. > >> Any errors, timeouts or retries would be showing up in dmesg.. > > how sure can i be of this? is it 100% sure that i have not encountered > > this error then? > > Pretty sure, I'm quite certain libata never does any silent error recovery..
AFAIR this is true (at least it was last time that I've looked at libata eh code)
okay, i suppose i face two possibilities then: 1: libata drivers are simply better, and the error does not occur because of driver bugs in the old ide drivers
very likely however pdc202xx_new bugs should be fixed in 2.6.20-rc3 (as it contains a lot of bugfixes for this driver from Sergei Shtylyov)
2: it hasnt happened to me on libata yet (though this is also abit weird, as it has now ran far longer than were previously required to hit the errors)
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