Western Digital hard disks and ATA timeouts

jim smith n0oct at sbcglobal.net
Sat Dec 6 13:38:50 PST 2008


On 7Nov, 2008, at 20:12 , Peter Wemm wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 11:17 PM, Jeremy Chadwick =20
> <koitsu at freebsd.org> wrote:
> [..]
>> As stated, FreeBSD's ATA command timeout is hard-set to 5 seconds, =20=

>> and
>> is not adjustable without editing the ATA code yourself and =20
>> increasing
>> the value. 

. . .and where in the code is this?  I've got some drives I'd like to
experiment with.  Thanks.

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jim smith <n0oct at sbcglobal.net>


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