https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=386555
User teheo@novell.com added comment
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=386555#c10
--- Comment #10 from Tejun Heo
It's not a question of how seriously you (at Novell) take the problem. I never wrote you're not considering it seriously. But I also think that if this hardware works correctly under Windows and Mac OS X, it should be work correctly without ugly hacks under Linux too.
Other points I can agree to but it working under mac os X is just dumb luck. The setting just isn't healthy. Let's say the vendor sets the unload timeout to 10 seconds and under nominal laptop circumstances Windows issues IOs every 8 secs unless it's completely idle. It will work fine there. Let's say mac does so every 7 to 9 seconds which will work fine too. Now, let's say linux does so every 10-12 seconds. Now you have a problem. Being idle for longer period time is a good thing which we should strive for but in this case it's fast death for the drive. This is why some people are reporting the problem goes away when laptop mode is disabled because then IOs will be issued more frequently. Such short fixed timeouts just can't generically work. It's bound to break. They had to go with longer timeout or adaptive one. So, it's not like something is wrong with linux, it's just different and the setting is way too aggressive for real world. Please think of my friend's laptop I mentioned earlier. That drive is going to be toasted pretty soon even if it's just differently configured windows. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.