Re: Errors from the ata disk driver

[Soren Schmidt]

It seems [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Will the backdown to PIO mode be permanent till the next reboot of the
> machine, or will the driver be able to attempt to return to DMA mode after
> a timeout period.  I'm only seeing these errors under really heavy disk
> activity (mutlitple nfs readers and writers plus rsync/mirror jobs to the
> vinum volume in question).

The fallback is permanent, but it only occurs after 3 retries on the
failed request. If it fails 3 times in a row, there is something
really wrong on that channel, ie bad cableing etc etc...

-Søren


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