On Tue, Jan 29, KY Srinivasan wrote: > I have not seen this. The SRB status indicates it is an illegal request; the command is WRITE_SAME. I will take a look. I can ignore it like SET_WINDOW, and the installation proceeds. Just a few messages in dmesg: ... [ 107.448281] EXT4-fs (sda2): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: acl,user_xattr [ 111.020383] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Unhandled error code [ 111.020913] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] [ 111.021264] Result: hostbyte=DID_ABORT driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [ 111.021791] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] CDB: [ 111.022186] Write Same(10): 41 00 00 16 e3 a8 00 0f d8 00 [ 111.024400] end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 1500072 [ 111.025790] sda2: WRITE SAME failed. Manually zeroing. [ 112.936342] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Unhandled error code [ 112.937588] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] [ 112.938429] Result: hostbyte=DID_ABORT driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [ 112.939642] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] CDB: [ 112.940550] Write Same(10): 41 00 00 16 f3 80 00 0f e0 00 [ 112.945081] end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 1504128 [ 112.946627] sda2: WRITE SAME failed. Manually zeroing. [ 113.495880] ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3 [ 113.498959] ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A [ 114.728274] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Unhandled error code [ 114.729540] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] [ 114.730419] Result: hostbyte=DID_ABORT driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [ 114.731670] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] CDB: [ 114.732644] Write Same(10): 41 00 00 17 03 60 00 0f e0 00 [ 114.737219] end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 1508192 [ 114.739027] sda2: WRITE SAME failed. Manually zeroing. [ 116.512217] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Unhandled error code [ 116.513206] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] [ 116.513947] Result: hostbyte=DID_ABORT driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [ 116.515187] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] CDB: [ 116.515983] Write Same(10): 41 00 00 17 13 40 00 0f e0 00 [ 116.519547] end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 1512256 [ 116.521011] sda2: WRITE SAME failed. Manually zeroing. ... Olaf -- 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