From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Luben Tuikov <ltuikov@yahoo.com>
Subject: Infinite retries reading the partition table
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 17:22:48 -0800 (PST)
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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)

Thanks,
    Luben