--- Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 17:22:48 -0800 (PST) > 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) > > > > Please send a backtrace so we can see where the offending loop occurs. I posted a patch to linux-scsi which resolves this issue: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-scsi&m=116485834119885&w=2 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