On Tue, 27 Nov 2007, Kyle McMartin wrote: > This Seagate FreeAgent external USB disk I just purchased seems to need > allow_restart enabled to spin back up; otherwise I just get a pile of > read errors when I try to access it. Add a new unusual flag for devices > needing scsi_device->allow_restart set, and add this Seagate drive to > the unusual devs table.
There already is a patch in Greg's USB development tree turning on allow_restart unconditionally for all USB mass-storage devices: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/gregkh-2.6/gregkh-03-usb/usb-storage-always-set-the-allow_restart-flag.patch Alan Stern ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Linux-usb-users@lists.sourceforge.net To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
