From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 15 Jun 2002 17:53:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 15 Jun 2002 17:53:48 -0400 Received: from elixir.e.kth.se ([130.237.48.5]:43277 "EHLO elixir.e.kth.se") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 15 Jun 2002 17:53:48 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Reading bad blocks hangs with 2.4.19-pre10 From: mru@users.sourceforge.net (=?iso-8859-1?q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?=) Date: 15 Jun 2002 23:53:48 +0200 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) XEmacs/21.1 (Channel Islands) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Reading a bad block on an IDE disk causes the system call to hang instead of returning EIO. Example: running badblocks on a damaged disk. 2.4.17 works correctly, 2.4.19-pre10 is broken, I don't know about others. Is this a bug? -- Måns Rullgård mru@users.sf.net