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| author | Matthew Dharm <mdharm-usb@one-eyed-alien.net> | 2005-06-06 17:22:42 -0700 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2005-06-27 14:44:03 -0700 |
| commit | 86dbde9cbdfe8bc2c2dfe5d33027d3acc55e0470 (patch) | |
| tree | 0dcfa65023ca3df8816bd7bbb42c19b443096a48 /drivers/usb/storage | |
| parent | 4d07ef762fc8d6d35ecc1511a3b953a733a61a5f (diff) | |
[PATCH] USB Storage: retry hard errors
This patch started life as as527, and was rediffed by me.
Since the IDE interface doesn't convey much information about types of
errors, many USB-IDE adapters report all low-level errors with SK = 0x04,
which is supposed to be used only for non-recoverable errors. As a result
the SCSI midlayer doesn't retry the command. But quite often a retry
would succeed, whereas an unnecessary retry doesn't really hurt anything.
This patch uses a recently-implemented flag to tell the SCSI midlayer that
such hardware errors should be retried.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Dharm <mdharm-usb@one-eyed-alien.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/usb/storage')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/usb/storage/scsiglue.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/usb/storage/scsiglue.c b/drivers/usb/storage/scsiglue.c index da2bfa944b9..af294bb68c3 100644 --- a/drivers/usb/storage/scsiglue.c +++ b/drivers/usb/storage/scsiglue.c @@ -155,6 +155,15 @@ static int slave_configure(struct scsi_device *sdev) * If this device makes that mistake, tell the sd driver. */ if (us->flags & US_FL_FIX_CAPACITY) sdev->fix_capacity = 1; + + /* USB-IDE bridges tend to report SK = 0x04 (Non-recoverable + * Hardware Error) when any low-level error occurs, + * recoverable or not. Setting this flag tells the SCSI + * midlayer to retry such commands, which frequently will + * succeed and fix the error. The worst this can lead to + * is an occasional series of retries that will all fail. */ + sdev->retry_hwerror = 1; + } else { /* Non-disk-type devices don't need to blacklist any pages |