From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Wilcox Subject: Re: READ CAPACITY failed on ia64 Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 06:08:08 -0600 Message-ID: <20070814120808.GM16277@parisc-linux.org> References: <20070814115005.GA31094@bsd.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from palinux.external.hp.com ([192.25.206.14]:40623 "EHLO mail.parisc-linux.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760826AbXHNMIJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Aug 2007 08:08:09 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070814115005.GA31094@bsd.hu> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Robert Nagy Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org 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."