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From: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	IDE/ATA development list <linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-scsi <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi_lib.c: continue after MEDIUM_ERROR
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 20:36:02 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45BFF282.4050305@rtr.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1170206199.10890.13.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com>

James Bottomley wrote:
> First off, please send SCSI patches to the SCSI list:
> <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>

Fixed already, thanks!

>> This patch fixes the behaviour to be similar to what we had originally.
>>
>> When a bad sector is encounted, SCSI will now work around it again,
>> failing *only* the bad sector itself.
> 
> Erm, but the corollary is that if we get a large read failure because of
> a bad track, you're going to try and chunk up it a sector at a time

That's better than the huge data-loss scenario that we currently
have for single-sector errors.  MUCH better.

> forcing an individual error for each sector is going to annoy some
> people ... particularly removable medium ones which return this error if
> the medium isn't present ... Are you sure this is really what we want to
> do?

No, for removed-medium everything just fails right away.
This patch is *only* for media errors, not any other failures.

Cheers

  reply	other threads:[~2007-01-31  1:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-31  0:47 [PATCH] scsi_lib.c: continue after MEDIUM_ERROR Mark Lord
2007-01-31  1:12 ` [PATCH] RESEND " Mark Lord
2007-01-31  1:16 ` [PATCH] " James Bottomley
2007-01-31  1:36   ` Mark Lord [this message]
     [not found]   ` <311601c90701301725n53d25a74g652b7ca3bfc64c56@mail.gmail.com>
2007-01-31  1:41     ` Mark Lord
2007-01-31  3:20       ` Ric Wheeler
2007-01-31  4:21         ` James Bottomley
2007-01-31 15:13           ` Mark Lord
2007-01-31 15:22             ` Mark Lord
2007-01-31 15:24             ` James Bottomley
2007-01-31  5:09         ` Douglas Gilbert
2007-01-31 15:08         ` Mark Lord
2007-01-31 15:23           ` Alan
2007-01-31 16:35             ` Ric Wheeler
2007-01-31 17:57             ` Mark Lord
2007-01-31 18:13               ` James Bottomley
2007-01-31 18:37                 ` Mark Lord
2007-01-31  9:30       ` Jeff Garzik
2007-01-31 14:36         ` Ric Wheeler
2007-01-31 15:28           ` Douglas Gilbert
2007-01-31 15:38             ` Mark Lord
2007-02-01 20:02   ` Mark Lord
2007-02-01 21:55     ` James Bottomley
2007-02-02  2:48       ` Mark Lord
2007-02-02 12:20       ` Ric Wheeler
2007-02-02 14:42         ` Alan
2007-02-02 14:53           ` James Bottomley
2007-02-02 16:16             ` Ric Wheeler
2007-02-02 20:16           ` Douglas Gilbert
2007-02-02 14:50         ` Alan
2007-02-02 16:06           ` Mark Lord
2007-02-02 19:49             ` Matt Mackall
2007-02-02 22:58               ` Mark Lord
2007-02-02 23:07                 ` Matt Mackall

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