On Sat, 8 Dec 2007, Cédric Villemain wrote: > Hello, > > I have an hard drive which is dying. So I use the great tool > "dd_rescue" to recover it. > > The main issue is that after few error, I have the following from > syslog (which obviously stop the dd_rescue). > > How can I prevent usb to detach the mass storage device even if there > is lot of errors ? (actually i unplug/replug the device to continue > the test)
> Dec 8 12:57:34 agecanonix kernel: usb 4-6: reset high speed USB > device using ehci_hcd and address 14 > Dec 8 12:57:39 agecanonix kernel: usb 4-6: device descriptor read/64, error > -71 > Dec 8 12:57:39 agecanonix kernel: usb 4-6: device descriptor read/64, error > -71 > Dec 8 12:57:41 agecanonix kernel: sd 5:0:0:0: scsi: Device offlined - > not ready after error recovery It's not possible to prevent the detach, because the detach is done by the device itself rather than by Linux. That's why you have to unplug the device to make it start working again. Alan Stern ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ Linux-usb-users@lists.sourceforge.net To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
