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Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 20:36:02 -0500 From: Mark Lord <lkml@....ca> To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, IDE/ATA development list <linux-ide@...r.kernel.org>, linux-scsi <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi_lib.c: continue after MEDIUM_ERROR James Bottomley wrote: > First off, please send SCSI patches to the SCSI list: > <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org> Fixed already, thanks! >> This patch fixes the behaviour to be similar to what we had originally. >> >> When a bad sector is encounted, SCSI will now work around it again, >> failing *only* the bad sector itself. > > Erm, but the corollary is that if we get a large read failure because of > a bad track, you're going to try and chunk up it a sector at a time That's better than the huge data-loss scenario that we currently have for single-sector errors. MUCH better. > forcing an individual error for each sector is going to annoy some > people ... particularly removable medium ones which return this error if > the medium isn't present ... Are you sure this is really what we want to > do? No, for removed-medium everything just fails right away. This patch is *only* for media errors, not any other failures. Cheers - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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