From: Luben Tuikov <ltuikov@yahoo.com>
To: linux-scsi <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Infinite retries reading the partition table
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 17:53:25 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <994367.96477.qm@web31806.mail.mud.yahoo.com> (raw)
--- Luben Tuikov <ltuikov@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Suppose reading sector 0 always reports an error,
> sense key HARDWARE ERROR.
>
> What I'm observing is that the request to read sector 0,
> reading partition information, is retried forever, ad infinitum.
>
> Does anyone have a patch to resolve this? (2.6.19-rc6)
Actually the device sends SK: MEDIUM ERROR, ASC: UNRECOVERED READ ERR,
but SCSI Core seems to retry reading the partition table (sector 0)
forever.
Anyone seen this and/or has a patch in their tree for it?
Luben
P.S. This is fairly straightforward to inject/test.
next reply other threads:[~2006-11-30 1:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-30 1:53 Luben Tuikov [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-11-30 1:22 Infinite retries reading the partition table Luben Tuikov
2006-12-01 5:47 ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-01 6:34 ` Luben Tuikov
2006-12-01 7:29 ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-01 8:32 ` Luben Tuikov
2006-12-05 20:40 ` Michael Reed
2006-12-06 5:00 ` Luben Tuikov
2006-12-06 5:08 ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-06 6:10 ` Luben Tuikov
2006-12-06 15:59 ` James Bottomley
2006-12-06 20:24 ` Luben Tuikov
2006-12-07 18:16 ` James Bottomley
2006-12-07 19:14 ` Luben Tuikov
2006-12-07 21:15 ` James Bottomley
2006-12-06 10:48 ` Etienne.Vogt
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