--- Luben Tuikov <ltuikov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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) Actually the device sends SK: MEDIUM ERROR, ASC: UNRECOVERED READ ERR, but SCSI Core seems to retry reading the partition table (sector 0) forever. Anyone seen this and/or has a patch in their tree for it? Luben P.S. This is fairly straightforward to inject/test. - 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
