Suppose reading sector 0 always reports an error, sense key HARDWARE ERROR. What I'm observing is that the request to read sector 0, reading partition information, is retried forever, ad infinitum. Does anyone have a patch to resolve this? (2.6.19-rc6) Thanks, Luben - To unsubscribe from this list: 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