From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joern Quillmann Subject: Re: Spinup of SCSI Disks: allow_restart won't work on 2.6.18 Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 22:44:36 +0100 Message-ID: <455E2D44.5030903@gmx.de> References: <455DF39A.6090209@fbihome.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.188]:20449 "EHLO moutng.kundenserver.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755951AbWKQVq5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Nov 2006 16:46:57 -0500 Received: from [192.168.1.30] by eis.satan.lan with esmtpa (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GlDQ5-0000Gh-2Z for linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org; Fri, 17 Nov 2006 23:46:54 +0000 In-Reply-To: <455DF39A.6090209@fbihome.de> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Joern Quillman wrote: > I have now the allow_restart entry in sysfs. > It's set to 0 in my machine and it won't let me change it with 'echo 1 > > allow_restart' or echo -n. I always get a write error. I just bought an external USB->IDE converter and tested it again. Of course due to the cheap concerter-chip the USB disk wont go to standby mode but I can set 'allow_restart' to 1 with this converter. So maybe it's only about sbp2 implementation or specifically my OXFW911 bridges? Thanks Joern