On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 02:04:52PM -0500, James Bottomley wrote: > Actually, we can't afford to send READ CAPACITY(16) to failing devices; > some of them never come back. When you say 'never come back', do you mean: a) The drive discards the command silently b) The drive hangs until a reset is issued c) The drive hangs until it's power-cycled d) The drive turns into a paperweight -- Matthew Wilcox Intel Open Source Technology Centre "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