Methods, systems, and devices are provided that processes storage commands. Data may be read from a storage memory at a storage device based on a read command received at the storage device from a host. An error may be detected in the data read from the storage memory at the storage device. In response to the error, placeholder data may be transmitted from the storage device to the host without transmitting an indication that the read command failed or succeeded. Corrected data may be transmitted from the storage device to the host, where the host replaces the placeholder data with the corrected data.