From: Tino Keitel <tino.keitel@gmx.de>
To: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
gregkh@suse.de, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Enable CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND by default or some mobile HD can't be unplugged safely
Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2009 15:08:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090102140845.GA25400@dose.home.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090102140023.GC4833@thyme.bj.intel.com>
On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 22:00:23 +0800, Yan Li wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 10:56:43AM +0100, Tino Keitel wrote:
> > With a WD My Passport drive (2,5"), I need to use sg_start --stop --pc=3
> > to stop the disk before unplugging it. Maybe this works with your
> > drive, too. This is also required by some Firewire hard disks. Maybe
> > the eject command should be extended to use this method, as it is used
> > also by HAL to eject hotplug devices.
>
> Hum... I grepped my hal and hal-info packages but haven't found any
> scripts using `sg_*'. I'm using hal package 0.5.11-6 from Debian
> testing.
HAL uses /usr/bin/eject, which doesn't set the power condition (as
sg_start --pc=X does). So eject (and HAL) doesn't work with disks that
require to set the power condition.
Just try sg_start --stop --pc=3 /dev/sdX to see if it works for you.
Regards,
Tino
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-02 14:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-01 16:03 Enable CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND by default or some mobile HD can't be unplugged safely Yan Li
2009-01-01 16:07 ` [PATCH] enable CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND by default Yan Li
2009-01-01 17:29 ` Enable CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND by default or some mobile HD can't be unplugged safely Alan Stern
2009-01-02 13:23 ` Yan Li
2009-01-01 17:32 ` Alexander E. Patrakov
2009-01-01 17:45 ` Alan Stern
2009-01-02 13:37 ` Yan Li
2009-01-02 13:46 ` Alexander E. Patrakov
2009-01-01 19:09 ` Robert Hancock
2009-01-02 9:56 ` Tino Keitel
2009-01-02 14:00 ` Yan Li
2009-01-02 14:08 ` Tino Keitel [this message]
2009-01-02 14:28 ` Yan Li
2009-01-02 16:04 ` Alan Stern
2009-01-03 2:33 ` Yan Li
2009-01-02 15:50 ` Mark Lord
2009-01-02 15:51 ` Mark Lord
2009-01-02 18:15 ` Tino Keitel
2009-01-03 2:24 ` Yan Li
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