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From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: Robert Nagy <robert.nagy@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: READ CAPACITY failed on ia64
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 06:08:08 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070814120808.GM16277@parisc-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070814115005.GA31094@bsd.hu>

On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 01:50:05PM +0200, Robert Nagy wrote:
> In this box I get the following error message:

If you turn on CONFIG_SCSI_CONSTANTS, you'll get the error message
decoded for you, but ...

> sd 0:0:2:0: [sdb] READ CAPACITY failed
> sd 0:0:2:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=0x00 driverbyte=0x08
> sd 0:0:2:0: [sdb] Sense Key : 0x3 [current]

        "Medium Error",     /* 3: Data error detected on the medium */

> sd 0:0:2:0: [sdb] ASC=0x31 ASCQ=0x0

        {0x3100, "Medium format corrupted"},

> I am currently running 2.6.22 but I've also tried with serveral other
> (and older) kernels and it still can't get the capacity of the disk.

Looks like the disc is broken.  Given that a scsiformat doesn't fix it,
it's probably irretrievable.

-- 
"Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this
operating system, but compare it to ours.  We can't possibly take such
a retrograde step."

  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-14 12:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-14 11:50 READ CAPACITY failed on ia64 Robert Nagy
2007-08-14 12:08 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2007-08-30 20:48   ` Douglas Gilbert

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