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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