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

Joern Quillmann
2006-11-17T21:46:57Z

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