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From: Michal 'vorner' Vaner <vorner@×××.cz>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] rejecting I/O to dead device
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 12:01:29
Message-Id: 20071231115518.GA9384@tarantula.kolej.mff.cuni.cz
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] rejecting I/O to dead device by Fred Kastl
1 Hello
2
3 On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 10:47:42PM +0100, Fred Kastl wrote:
4 > i get this message 2 -3 times within a second. This floods my logfile.
5 >
6 > Dec 30 16:54:46 server kernel: scsi 2:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device
7 > Dec 30 16:54:47 server kernel: scsi 2:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device
8 > Dec 30 16:54:47 server kernel: scsi 2:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device
9 > Dec 30 16:54:48 server kernel: scsi 2:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device
10 > Dec 30 16:54:48 server kernel: scsi 2:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device
11 > Dec 30 16:54:49 server kernel: scsi 2:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device
12 > Dec 30 16:54:49 server kernel: scsi 2:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device
13 > Dec 30 16:54:50 server kernel: scsi 2:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device
14 > Dec 30 16:54:50 server kernel: scsi 2:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device
15 > Dec 30 16:54:51 server kernel: scsi 2:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device
16 > Dec 30 16:54:51 server kernel: scsi 2:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device
17 > Dec 30 16:54:52 server kernel: scsi 2:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device
18 > Dec 30 16:54:52 server kernel: scsi 2:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device
19 >
20 >
21 > but there is no scsi device 2.
22
23 I get these if I unplug an USB disk while still mounted. Could that be
24 your case? (Until it is unmounted, programs can try to access it and
25 then the driver will just reject the read/write there)
26
27 > ## cat /proc/scsi/scsi
28
29 It lists only the ones "alive", not dead.
30
31 --
32 _(){ _&_;};_
33
34 Michal 'vorner' Vaner