On Mon, 3 Aug 2009 at 6:25pm, Alan Stern wrote: AS> You are correct except for the term "indefinitely". The retries _will_ AS> stop if you wait long enough. Unfortunately, because of all the nested AS> retry loops in the SCSI drivers and at the application level, you may AS> have to wait as long as half an hour. It was a simple test, I've plugged the USB cable off after two hours, this is apparently not long enough: [root ~]# time dd if=/dev/sdf of=/dev/null skip=61395120 count=1 bs=512 dd: reading `/dev/sdf': Input/output error 0+0 records in 0+0 records out 0 bytes (0 B) copied, 7550.12 s, 0.0 kB/s dd: closing input file `/dev/sdf': Bad file descriptor real 125m50.119s user 0m0.000s sys 0m0.000s -L -- 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
