On Mon 23-11-09 10:06:03, Alan Stern wrote: > On Mon, 23 Nov 2009, Jan Kara wrote: > > > Yeah, from what you write, it looks like USB enclosure is at fault (or it > > could still be your USB controller but I doubt it). It's still a bit > > bothering that the error reported by the drive was not properly propagated > > up to VFS. Either it's some block layer retry/ignore magic that I missed or > > we ignore errors from block layer in some place. > > Is there any interest in tracking this down? It's not hard to find out > what low-level errors are being reported and to generate them on demand > with an emulated USB disk drive. Well, if you could provide me with the patch, I could try to track down why the errors aren't propagated... It would be interesting because if it's not some retry logic in block layer, it's a bug in VFS ;). Honza -- Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> SUSE Labs, CR -- 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
