Re: reading errors on JMicron JM20337 USB-SATA

[Alan Stern]

On Mon, 3 Aug 2009, Lev A. Melnikovsky wrote:

>   On Mon, 3 Aug 2009 at 6:25pm, Alan Stern wrote:
> 
> AS> You are correct except for the term "indefinitely".  The retries _will_
> AS> stop if you wait long enough.  Unfortunately, because of all the nested
> AS> retry loops in the SCSI drivers and at the application level, you may
> AS> have to wait as long as half an hour.
> It was a simple test, I've plugged the USB cable off after two hours, this 
> is apparently not long enough:
> 
> [root ~]# time dd if=/dev/sdf of=/dev/null skip=61395120 count=1 bs=512
> dd: reading `/dev/sdf': Input/output error
> 0+0 records in
> 0+0 records out
> 0 bytes (0 B) copied, 7550.12 s, 0.0 kB/s
> dd: closing input file `/dev/sdf': Bad file descriptor
> 
> real    125m50.119s
> user    0m0.000s
> sys     0m0.000s

Okay, it looks like I was wrong and this particular kind of error will
indeed cause unending retries.

Either way, like I said before, you should complain about this to the
SCSI people.  They are the ones who can fix it.  (You can CC: linux-usb
too, just to keep us in the loop.)

Tell them that scsi_end_request() mustn't call scsi_requeue_command() 
if bytes == 0.

Alan Stern

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