Jarkko Lavinen wrote:
Those reads were stuck since the kernel was in endless retry loop
which was terminated by ddrescue timeout.
There was discuession "ata_eh_link_autopsy: Bug?" in linux-ide about
media errors year ago:
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ide/52019
The endless retry on media errors has been fixed in v3.5 kernel.
Thanks for the info. It seems that retrying the same sector several
times in a row is mainly a waste of time.
Best regards,
Antonio.
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