On Thu, 2005-11-10 at 09:57 -0500, Mark Lord wrote:
> Richard Purdie wrote:
> >
> > - * FIXME: This treatment is probably applicable for *all* PCMCIA (PC CARD)
> > - * devices, so in linux 2.3.x we should change this to just treat all
> > - * PCMCIA drives this way, and get rid of the model-name tests below
> > - * (too big of an interface change for 2.4.x).
> > - * At that time, we might also consider parameterizing the timeouts and
> > - * retries, since these are MUCH faster than mechanical drives. -M.Lord
> > - */
>
> I believe the latter half of those comments (timeouts) should
> be left in the IDE layer (somewhere), as a note to current/future
> maintainers about something that does need fixing eventually.
>
> Something like this:
>
> /*
> * FIXME: Someday we ought to parameterize IDE timeouts to use
> * much smaller values when dealing with flash memory cards.
> * For example, these devices never require more than a second
> * (much less, actually) for "spin-up", compared with a limit
> * of 31 seconds for mechanical ATA drives. This would speed up
> * error recovery for these popular devices, especially in embedded work
> */
Does this still apply given the existence of devices like microdrives?
My microdrive certainly sounds like it could take a second or two to
spin up...
Richard
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