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Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 22:34:57 -0800 (PST)
From: Luben Tuikov <ltuikov@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: ltuikov@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: Infinite retries reading the partition table
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
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       linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
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--- 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

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