[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sjoerd Simons) wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 02:35:16PM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> > Let me add some notes that help to understand vold and to
> > fix hald.....
> >
> > Using O_EXCL is definitely not the right solution.
> >
> > The right way to deal with this hald induced problem is to
> > change hald to not access the drive later than 3 seconds
> > after a medium change indication has been reveived and in any
> > othe case not to send any SCSI command other than INQUIRY and
> > TEST_UNIT_READY.
> > Note that even INQUIRY and TEST_UNIT_READY should not be issued more
> > than once every 3 seconds.
>
> Could you tell us why not more then every 3 seconds? Hal currently does polls
> every two seconds.
It may be that 2 seconds will work too....
I know that there never has been any bug report against the Solaris vold.
In contrast to that, people complain about problems on Linux.
What kind of commands is hald (or a driver) sending to the devices?
Jörg
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