Re: one-line-patch against SCSI-Read-Error-BUG()

From: James Stevenson (mail-lists@stev.org)
Date: Tue Feb 05 2002 - 17:40:14 EST


> Hi, List
>
> I think, I found a very simple solution for this annoying BUG().
>
> Since at least kernel 2.4.16 there is a BUG() in pci.h,
> that crashes the kernel on any attempt to read a SCSI-Sector
> from an erased MO-Medium and on any attempt to read
> a sector from a SCSI-disk, which returns "Read-Error".
>
> There seems to be a thinko in the corresponding code, which
> does not take into account the case where a SCSI-READ
> does not return any data because of a "sense code: read error"
> or a "sense code: blank sector".
>

would this also happen with the ide-scsi driver then
and would this explain why i see panic's on when reading
cd's ?

    James

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