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| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/usb/storage/scsiglue.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/usb/storage/scsiglue.c b/drivers/usb/storage/scsiglue.c index da2bfa944b9..af294bb68c3 100644 --- a/drivers/usb/storage/scsiglue.c +++ b/drivers/usb/storage/scsiglue.c @@ -155,6 +155,15 @@ static int slave_configure(struct scsi_device *sdev) * If this device makes that mistake, tell the sd driver. */ if (us->flags & US_FL_FIX_CAPACITY) sdev->fix_capacity = 1; + + /* USB-IDE bridges tend to report SK = 0x04 (Non-recoverable + * Hardware Error) when any low-level error occurs, + * recoverable or not. Setting this flag tells the SCSI + * midlayer to retry such commands, which frequently will + * succeed and fix the error. The worst this can lead to + * is an occasional series of retries that will all fail. */ + sdev->retry_hwerror = 1; + } else { /* Non-disk-type devices don't need to blacklist any pages |