On Fri, 12 Dec 2008, Oliver Neukum wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 11. Dezember 2008 23:02:04 schrieb Alan Stern: > > 2.6.27 does retry the read, indefinitely as far as I can tell. At > > least, if there is a means for giving up eventually, I don't know what > > it is. My B'' patch provides such a means, but I doubt it will be > > accepted since it would interfere with the operation of some SCSI tape > > devices. > > How so? I don't know the details. See http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=122842458004037&w=2 and the other messages in that thread. 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
