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From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
To: Douglas Gilbert <dougg@torque.net>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
	Martin Peschke <mpeschke@de.ibm.com>,
	Radovan Garabik <garabik@kassiopeia.juls.savba.sk>,
	SCSI Mailing List <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH as468] Retry supposedly "unrecoverable" hardware errors
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 09:11:47 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1108653107.5507.3.camel@mulgrave> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42141D3D.9080800@torque.net>

On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 14:27 +1000, Douglas Gilbert wrote:
> Recent SPC-3 and SBC-2 drafts treat the sense keys of
> MEDIUM ERROR and HARDWARE ERROR in a similar way.
> Both can return an "info" field which has the same
> meaning (lba of first failure). The distinction is that
> MEDIUM ERROR is a little more precise (at least for
> magnetic rotating media) **. For flash ram the distinction
> is moot.

My copy of SPC-3 (r21d) still defined HARDWARE ERROR in Table 27 as

HARDWARE ERROR: Indicates that the device server detected a non-
recoverable hardware failure
(e.g., controller failure, device failure, or parity error) while
performing the command or during a self
test.

which looks pretty non-retryable to me ... where does it say that the
error might be retryable?

James



  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-02-17 15:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20050210134432.GA12229@kassiopeia.juls.savba.sk>
2005-02-11 16:00 ` [usb-storage] Re: MPIO HS200 Gigabox weird behaviour again Alan Stern
2005-02-11 16:18   ` James Bottomley
2005-02-11 18:31     ` Alan Stern
2005-02-11 19:07       ` Patrick Mansfield
2005-02-11 19:41         ` Alan Stern
2005-02-16 14:37       ` Radovan Garabik
2005-02-16 16:53         ` [PATCH as468] Retry supposedly "unrecoverable" hardware errors Alan Stern
2005-02-17  4:27           ` Douglas Gilbert
2005-02-17  5:06             ` Douglas Gilbert
2005-02-17 15:20               ` Alan Stern
2005-02-17 15:11             ` James Bottomley [this message]
2005-02-18  0:49               ` Douglas Gilbert

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