Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S967791AbWK3BWu (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Nov 2006 20:22:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S967793AbWK3BWu (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Nov 2006 20:22:50 -0500 Received: from web31807.mail.mud.yahoo.com ([68.142.207.70]:53903 "HELO web31807.mail.mud.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S967791AbWK3BWt (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Nov 2006 20:22:49 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Reply-To:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=LUUfq4o1U+4LflM+UEwa4KOkdbljVnDfMcDIIEynxveK+zt0FOerxqln861TyohuXYh8B4e1iQmTHriYi+mff6YjYuePslHhZPm0kk6/JOJWYbi8Z5nRXb2OCU1Q3BR91L4tYrglEDnPyOYGEJ3gbXWA023hlORysNYPJcDKXaA=; X-YMail-OSG: 0ucpLlkVM1mFJ56VADkpe6vbUtjSPvKDfAfKRahK2AlfKLsSdFCIf.48yYjPw1_mokirIIhDF76VLNbja9THpca9GQV_PMQpCXYqbcg8ZSFwlnyiXb3Y2dhWJvSOfEnaAMBRan7luGXpXi2IuYyAOHugrNpfBnye Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 17:22:48 -0800 (PST) From: Luben Tuikov Reply-To: ltuikov@yahoo.com Subject: Infinite retries reading the partition table To: linux-scsi , linux-kernel MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-ID: <617182.73467.qm@web31807.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 519 Lines: 16 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/