On Mon, Nov 29, 1999 at 06:16:34PM +0530, Binand Raj S. wrote:
> #ifndef HZ
> #define HZ 100
> #endif
>
> And in /usr/src/linux/drivers/block/ide.h:
>
> /*
> * Timeouts for various operations:
> */
> #define WAIT_DRQ (5*HZ/100) /* 50msec - spec allows up to 20ms */
>
> With the above HZ value, that should work out to 5, not 50. Is there a factor
> of 10 somewhere hidden, or is it really 5 ms?
WAIT_DRQ will be 5 jiffies. 1 jiffie = 1/100 sec = 10 ms.
-Arun
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