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-rw-r--r--drivers/usb/storage/scsiglue.c9
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