James and Boaz: Here's a question. Suppose a device returns NOT READY sense key repeatedly. How long should the request be retried before we give up? If we never give up then the request will never finish, so the caller will hang. Alan Stern -- 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