[Devel] Re: unexpected scsi timeout

[Tejun Heo]

[cc'ing Albert]

Vasily Averin wrote:
> Tejun, Jeff
> 
> I've noticed that some scsi commands for DVD-drive attached to pata_via
> successfully finishes without any delays but reports about TIMEOUT condition. It
> happens because of ATA_ERR bit is set in status register. As result for each
> command  Error Handler thread awakened, requests sense buffer and go to sleep again.

Need more info.  Please post boot dmesg and the result of 'lspci -nn'
and 'hdparm -I /dev/srX' and when such errors occur.

Thanks.

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tejun