Re: [PATCH 1/3] Make the IDE DMA timeout modifiable

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Mark Lord wrote:

I've lost the original question from this thread, but the idea of the

The original question concerned specifically the DMA command timeout which is twice more than the usual one, WAIT_CMD (10 seconds).

longish
timeouts was that drive *may* be spun down ("standby"), and thus have to spin up again to complete media commands. Back then, drives were much slower at spinning up than nowadays, and the ATA spec says to allow up to 30 seconds.

   Well, that doesn't explain the DMA case.

When a drive is in standby, we don't send it anything special to wake up.
So even DMA commands have to have a long enough timeout to allow
for spinning up.

   Yes, but why *twice* as long as the others?

Cheers

MBR, Sergei
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