Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759107AbWLAFrT (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Dec 2006 00:47:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759099AbWLAFrT (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Dec 2006 00:47:19 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.25]:20378 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758196AbWLAFrS (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Dec 2006 00:47:18 -0500 Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 21:47:16 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: ltuikov@yahoo.com Cc: linux-scsi , linux-kernel Subject: Re: Infinite retries reading the partition table Message-Id: <20061130214716.6306a586.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <617182.73467.qm@web31807.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <617182.73467.qm@web31807.mail.mud.yahoo.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.7 (GTK+ 2.8.17; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 670 Lines: 18 On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 17:22:48 -0800 (PST) Luben Tuikov 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. - 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/