Western Digital hard disks and ATA timeouts

Julian Stacey jhs at berklix.org
Fri Nov 7 08:00:09 PST 2008


> But regardless of TLER being toggleable, FreeBSD's ATA command timeout
> of 5 seconds is too aggressive, and should be increased.  Likewise, the
> value should be a sysctl, so those who do want such aggressive values

Once it migrates from a constant to sysctl variable, could kernel maybe
also sniff the drives, & automatically set appropriate value ?
(Just an idea ? :-)

Cheers,
Julian
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