On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 01:50:05PM +0200, Robert Nagy wrote: > In this box I get the following error message: If you turn on CONFIG_SCSI_CONSTANTS, you'll get the error message decoded for you, but ... > sd 0:0:2:0: [sdb] READ CAPACITY failed > sd 0:0:2:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=0x00 driverbyte=0x08 > sd 0:0:2:0: [sdb] Sense Key : 0x3 [current] "Medium Error", /* 3: Data error detected on the medium */ > sd 0:0:2:0: [sdb] ASC=0x31 ASCQ=0x0 {0x3100, "Medium format corrupted"}, > I am currently running 2.6.22 but I've also tried with serveral other > (and older) kernels and it still can't get the capacity of the disk. Looks like the disc is broken. Given that a scsiformat doesn't fix it, it's probably irretrievable. -- "Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such a retrograde step." - 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