Re: Buggy Firewire bridge 'Prolific PL3507'

[maximilian attems <max@stro.at>]

On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 12:10:47PM -0600, James Bottomley wrote:
> 
> Not to hijack the thread, but this is getting to be a broken record.  I
> was dealing only a few days ago with a camera presenting as a mass
> storage device that was then crashing and going offline.  I looked at
> the dmesg trace which showed that the SCSI layer completes its probing
> successfully, and said it was some other extraneous command issued from
> user level causing the crash.  Sure enough, stopping hald fixed the
> camera so it functioned as a mass storage device properly.  The bug
> report is here:
> 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/hal/+bug/180472
> 
> What is the point of having SCSI be so careful in its probing and setup
> so as not to annoy these devices, and then have hald or another standard
> component blithely go and wreck the device by issuing unwarranted SCSI
> commands?
> 
> Can we please stop hald from issuing SCSI commands ... we should have
> the infrastructure in place now that renders this unnecessary ... unless
> there's still some information it needs that we're not providing?
> 
> James

full ack,
writing over a stupid hsdpa usb modem that stops working with hald crap.
hald keeps resetting the thingy.

-- 
maks