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From: Patrick Mansfield <patmans@us.ibm.com>
To: Eddie Williams <Eddie.Williams@steeleye.com>
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Patch:  allow devices to restrict start on add
Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 11:05:22 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030522110522.A7240@beaverton.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200305221140.59633.Eddie.Williams@Steeleye.com>; from Eddie.Williams@steeleye.com on Thu, May 22, 2003 at 11:40:59AM -0400

Eddie -

On Thu, May 22, 2003 at 11:40:59AM -0400, Eddie Williams wrote:
> When a SCSI disk is added and it returns a NOT READY the SD driver is 
> automatically sending a START_UNIT command to spin the device up.  While this 
> may be the desired behavior for many if not most devices not all devices 
> either want or need this.  The attached patch provides a mechanism via the 

Can you elaborate on "want or need this"? Do they get errors?

Is this a clusters issue?

Also you should patch against scsi-misc-2.5, or a recent bk, since hch
moved all of the devinfo code into scsi_devinfo.c

-- Patrick Mansfield

  reply	other threads:[~2003-05-22 17:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-05-22 15:40 Patch: allow devices to restrict start on add Eddie Williams
2003-05-22 18:05 ` Patrick Mansfield [this message]
2003-05-22 20:10   ` Eddie Williams
2003-05-23 15:00     ` Eddie Williams
2003-05-22 18:30 ` Luben Tuikov
2003-05-22 20:36   ` Eddie Williams
2003-05-24  3:00     ` Luben Tuikov
2003-05-25 10:00       ` Douglas Gilbert
2003-05-25 17:13         ` Luben Tuikov

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