On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 14:27 +1000, Douglas Gilbert wrote: > Recent SPC-3 and SBC-2 drafts treat the sense keys of > MEDIUM ERROR and HARDWARE ERROR in a similar way. > Both can return an "info" field which has the same > meaning (lba of first failure). The distinction is that > MEDIUM ERROR is a little more precise (at least for > magnetic rotating media) **. For flash ram the distinction > is moot.
My copy of SPC-3 (r21d) still defined HARDWARE ERROR in Table 27 as HARDWARE ERROR: Indicates that the device server detected a non- recoverable hardware failure (e.g., controller failure, device failure, or parity error) while performing the command or during a self test. which looks pretty non-retryable to me ... where does it say that the error might be retryable? James - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
