From: Luben Tuikov <ltuikov@yahoo.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: linux-scsi <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Infinite retries reading the partition table
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 22:34:57 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <117439.97789.qm@web31803.mail.mud.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061130214716.6306a586.akpm@osdl.org>
--- Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 17:22:48 -0800 (PST)
> 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)
> >
>
> Please send a backtrace so we can see where the offending loop occurs.
I posted a patch to linux-scsi which resolves this issue:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-scsi&m=116485834119885&w=2
Luben
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-01 6:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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 [this message]
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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2006-11-30 1:53 Luben Tuikov
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