L not as command type but as driver-specific flag for the debug purposes. As result all i2o requests have type "special" now, are not processed to the hardware and fail with I/O error: i2o/hda:<3>Buffer I/O error on device i2o/hda, logical block 0 Buffer I/O error on device i2o/hda, logical block 0 Buffer I/O error on device i2o/hda, logical block 0 unable to read partition table block-osm: device added (TID: 207): i2o/hda The following patch removes the extra debug checks without any drawbacks and restores the normal driver's work. Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin Acked-by: Markus Lidel Cc: Jens Axboe Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Å€àô•4x