On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 05:08:12PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote: > 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. Who would know? The scsi crowd? > > > 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 -- MST -- 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
