James Bottomley wrote:
First off, please send SCSI patches to the SCSI list:
<linux-scsi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Fixed already, thanks!
This patch fixes the behaviour to be similar to what we had originally.
When a bad sector is encounted, SCSI will now work around it again,
failing *only* the bad sector itself.
Erm, but the corollary is that if we get a large read failure because of
a bad track, you're going to try and chunk up it a sector at a time
That's better than the huge data-loss scenario that we currently
have for single-sector errors. MUCH better.
forcing an individual error for each sector is going to annoy some
people ... particularly removable medium ones which return this error if
the medium isn't present ... Are you sure this is really what we want to
do?
No, for removed-medium everything just fails right away.
This patch is *only* for media errors, not any other failures.
Cheers
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