Re: Spinup of SCSI Disks: allow_restart won't work on 2.6.18

Stefan Richter
2006-11-21T20:49:39Z

Joern Quillmann wrote:
> Stefan Richter wrote:
>>> ieee1394: sbp2: Error logging into SBP-2 device - timed out
>>> sbp2: probe of 0001d20000093c4d-0 failed with error -16
>>
>> This should not be a problem per se, although it won't be possible to
>> actually use the disk after a login failure of course.
>
> The remaining disks were not found too.

Because of the subsequent oops in ieee1394's nodemgr context, which runs
all the device probes.

...
>> if you can reproduce this bug, I could send you a
>> patch with a bunch of printk's to narrow the offending sysfs attribute
>> down.
>
> Sure no problem. I'll test it asap.
> Would be great to get a solution for this too. Kinda unfunny to always
> have the external disks running before the system boots.

I'll get back to you once I have something to work on the oops or/and
the login failure.
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Stefan Richter
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