Hi, Andrew & Co. On Aug 20 2009, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 02:13:27 GMT > bugzilla-daemon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > Trying to see the status of a drive of mine that is in an USB enclosure, I > > issued the command: > > > > # smartctl -d usbcypress -a /dev/sda > > > > What I got in return was: > > > > "task smartctl:1513 blocked for more than 120 seconds" with a subsequent stack > > trace, listed below. > > Yup, that's a bug. Thanks for the confirmation. > I assume that smartctl never recovered? Yes, sorry for not mentioning this explicitly. smartctl hang there and was uninterruptible. :-( > I don't know if it's a scsi bug or a usb bug. Probably the latter? Again, just reiterating, what I said before, even though I am not sure if I can reproduce it, I will try to. And if any further information about my hardware is needed, please, just let me know. Thanks, Rogério Brito. -- Rogério Brito : rbrito@{mackenzie,ime.usp}.br : GPG key 1024D/7C2CAEB8 http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito : http://meusite.mackenzie.com.br/rbrito Projects: algorithms.berlios.de : lame.sf.net : vrms.alioth.debian.org -- 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