Re: reading errors on JMicron JM20337 USB-SATA

[Lev A. Melnikovsky]

  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

-L
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