On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Douglas Gilbert wrote:
... after a bit further thought, a retry (arguably) is only
needed when an unrecoverable (data) error is detected. If we
assume the info field indicates an unrecoverable error
then the following patch combines the processing of
MEDIUM and HARDWARE
James Bottomley wrote:
On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 14:27 +1000, Douglas Gilbert wrote:
Recent SPC-3 and SBC-2 drafts treat the sense keys of
MEDIUM ERROR and HARDWARE ERROR in a similar way.
Both can return an info field which has the same
meaning (lba of first failure). The distinction is that
MEDIUM
James:
This is an updated and unmangled version of the patch sent in by Martin
Peschke. Apparently some drives report Hardware Error sense for
problems which do improve after retrying, so the patch retries these
supposedly unrecoverable errors for such devices.
In addition to the IBM ESS
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