Re: cold plugging

[Scott James Remnant <scott@netsplit.com>]

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On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 18:47 +0000, Darren Salt wrote:

> I demand that Alexander E. Patrakov may or may not have written...
> 
> > Kay Sievers wrote:
> [snip]
> >> To wait for the events to finish (if you need to), I do:
> >> 	loop=300
> >> 	while test -d /dev/.udev/queue; do
> >> 	    sleep 0.1;
> >> 	    test "$loop" -gt 0 || break
> >> 	    loop=$(($loop - 1))
> >> 	done
> 
> > USB uevents easily get past this loop.
> 
> Also slower machines. I have a machine (PII 366) here which has randomly
> failed to create /dev/hda* in time, causing problems for fsck; doubling the
> timeout avoids the problem.
> 
This is almost certainly due to the buggy IDE subsystem patch in
Debian's kernel.

Scott
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