Re: reading errors on JMicron JM20337 USB-SATA

[Alan Stern]

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

> AS> yes, jmicron bridges do not report errors properly and just stall pretty
> AS> much indefinitely; found out the hard way, when a disk started to develop
> My interpretation was different - the bridge firmware does not crash but 
> remains alive (it does not report the error properly but "zis iz probably 
> perfectly normal behaviour for a Vogon"). This is the Linux kernel that 
> indefinitely tries to re-read. Am I wrong?

You are correct except for the term "indefinitely".  The retries _will_
stop if you wait long enough.  Unfortunately, because of all the nested
retry loops in the SCSI drivers and at the application level, you may
have to wait as long as half an hour.

I agree that this should be fixed.  But it is a SCSI issue, not a USB 
issue.  You could try bringing it up on the linux-scsi mailing list.

Alan Stern

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