5.3-RELEASE: WARNING - WRITE_DMA interrupt timout

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Sat Nov 13 02:20:34 PST 2004


In message <4195DB3E.2040807 at DeepCore.dk>, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= wri
tes:

>> It is not really the task of the ata driver to fail requests at that
>> time.   How long is the timeout anyway ?
>
>Oh, ATA doesn't fail them, it just yells that the request hasn't been 
>finished yet by the upper layers, it doesn't do anything to the request.
>
>Timeout is 5 secs, which is a pretty long time in this context IMHO..

Five seconds counted from when ?

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