On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 16:30 -0500, Gustavo Guillermo Pérez wrote: > Ok, this is what I've got. Thanks, this is interesting: > Apr 24 16:12:14 gusgus kernel: sr 1:0:0:0: Device not ready: <6>: Current: > sense key=0x2 > Apr 24 16:12:14 gusgus kernel: ASC=0x4 ASCQ=0x8 That's "LU not ready; long write in progress" > This Other is cause I left the print outside the brackets, cause I want to see > on closing session. > Apr 24 16:13:10 gusgus kernel: : Current: sense key=0x2 > Apr 24 16:13:10 gusgus kernel: ASC=0x3a ASCQ=0x0 Yes, that's just medium not present. So, I could change the long write in progress to a retry. However, I suspect the reason we got that return is because this device is untagged (doesn't accept multiple commands at once) and perhaps a better fix might be to reduce the queue depth down to one to prevent more than one command being outstanding at any one time. James - : 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