On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, Richard Rauch wrote:
>  [...]
> > > However, after about 5 tries, it seems to give up reporting a "hard error".
>  [...]
> > Yes, it does give up eventually, but it's not a quick response.
> 
> Even with amd?  I misunderstood you, then, when you spoke of perpetual
> errors.  (Bear in mind that I don't use amd.  (^&)

Sorry, they just _seemed_ perpetual. :-)

> > It's certainly a good theory. With 100000 "date; ls /mnt/floppy; date"
> > takes 38 seconds. When set to 100, the timeouts come slightly quicker and
> 
> Well, that's interesting news.  (^&
> 
> I don't really know that cutting the retry count is wise in general, since
> I just skimmed the source, but 100000 does seem excessive.

Agreed.
 
> Did you cut both of the counts, or just the one?  Since one of them
> doesn't have any associated log message, you might be running into
> both.

I cut both. If you cut them too much, the floppy isn't detected.

-- 
Stephen