On 05-Feb-2002 James Stevenson wrote:
| > Hi, List
| >
| > I think, I found a very simple solution for this annoying BUG().
| >
| > Since at least kernel 2.4.16 there is a BUG() in pci.h,
| > that crashes the kernel on any attempt to read a SCSI-Sector
| > from an erased MO-Medium and on any attempt to read
| > a sector from a SCSI-disk, which returns "Read-Error".
| >
| > There seems to be a thinko in the corresponding code, which
| > does not take into account the case where a SCSI-READ
| > does not return any data because of a "sense code: read error"
| > or a "sense code: blank sector".
| >
|
| would this also happen with the ide-scsi driver then
| and would this explain why i see panic's on when reading
| cd's ?
|
I don't know (yet), but it`s well possible.
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