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Date:      Wed, 4 Nov 1998 10:34:52 +0800 (GMT)
From:      Michael Robinson <robinson@public.bta.net.cn>
To:        perl@netmug.org, tom@uniserve.com
Cc:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: has this been fixed?
Message-ID:  <199811040234.KAA24822@public.bta.net.cn>

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Tom <tom@uniserve.com> writes:
>  It is hardware problem.  Fix the hardware so it
>responds faster, and the warning message will disapear.
>
>> Or is there a way to keep that from happening?  What causes that error?
>> An IDE timeout, right?
>
>  You can lengthen the timeout, but this would just hide the problem.
>Your drive is taking a bit too long to respond.

Just out of curiousity, how did the threshold for "a bit too long" get 
determined?  Is this defined in the IDE standard?  Did someone conduct
a comprehensive survey of popular drives under various error-recovery modes?
Did the driver writer just pull a number out of the air?

	-Michael


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