Re: Infinite retries reading the partition table

On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 17:22:48 -0800 (PST)
Luben Tuikov <[email protected]> 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.
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