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
next prev parent 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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