On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 10:36:19AM -0500, Alan Stern wrote:
> These are conflicting requirements.  How can we send the START-STOP 
> UNIT commands to spin the disk up/down through the request queue while 
> delaying or failing all others?

You can insert commands at the head of a request queue.

> What happens if one of the 
> START-STOP UNIT commands encounters a problem and the error handler 
> needs to send some commands of its own?

It'll do a reset and recover through the normal paths?

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