On Maw, 2005-12-20 at 18:31 -0600, Drew Winstel wrote: > With the application that John is using (namely, it delivers reads and writes > directly to the drive via various SG ioctls), the file system is not an > issue, hence wanting the errors to be returned to userspace. > > I presume this means that John would have to look at the block level error > handling as opposed to the SCSI level? If you are using the sg ioctls then the commands are dispatched and the results come through the request queues but not the block layer above. In that case you really shouldn't be seeing a hang. Alan - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html