From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: Infinite retries reading the partition table Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 21:47:16 -0800 Message-ID: <20061130214716.6306a586.akpm@osdl.org> References: <617182.73467.qm@web31807.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: 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 In-Reply-To: <617182.73467.qm@web31807.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: ltuikov@yahoo.com Cc: linux-scsi , linux-kernel 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.