On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 01:50:05PM +0200, Robert Nagy wrote:
> In this box I get the following error message:

If you turn on CONFIG_SCSI_CONSTANTS, you'll get the error message
decoded for you, but ...

> sd 0:0:2:0: [sdb] READ CAPACITY failed
> sd 0:0:2:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=0x00 driverbyte=0x08
> sd 0:0:2:0: [sdb] Sense Key : 0x3 [current]

        "Medium Error",     /* 3: Data error detected on the medium */

> sd 0:0:2:0: [sdb] ASC=0x31 ASCQ=0x0

        {0x3100, "Medium format corrupted"},

> I am currently running 2.6.22 but I've also tried with serveral other
> (and older) kernels and it still can't get the capacity of the disk.

Looks like the disc is broken.  Given that a scsiformat doesn't fix it,
it's probably irretrievable.

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