Infinite retries reading the partition table
Quoted 7 lines · --- Luben Tuikov
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)
Actually the device sends SK: MEDIUM ERROR, ASC: UNRECOVERED READ ERR, but SCSI Core seems to retry reading the partition table (sector 0) forever.
Anyone seen this and/or has a patch in their tree for it?
LubenP.S. This is fairly straightforward to inject/test.