On Mon, 25 May 2009, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > So apparently this is a bug in the device; it doesn't respond correctly > > to the first READ command. But since it does respond correctly to > > later commands, everything works okay thereafter. You ought to be able > > to recover from the error by running > > > > blockdev --rereadpt /dev/sdb > > > > manually. > > Yes, this helps. > Would it make sense for kernel to retry automatically? > Why doesn't it? I don't know the details in this case. Most likely the error code (Logical Block Address Out of Range) is interpreted as a fatal non-retryable error. For other sorts of errors, the kernel does retry. > > As far as I can tell, this has nothing to do with any user programs in > > the distribution. It appears to be entirely the device's fault. > > > > Alan Stern > > BTW, any idea how come I later get errors apparently from amiga fs? Not a clue. Unless it was some odd side effect of the partition code trying to interpret an uninitialized buffer. Alan Stern -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
