Re: 2.6.21rc7 autoresume fails on Seagate FreeAgent drives

Alan Stern <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.usb.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, 2 May 2007, Scott Vlaminck wrote:

> I was having this very same problem and the fix below worked for me
> (but the actual path was
> /sys/block/sda/device/scsi_disk:8:0:0:0/allow_restart ). I don't
> really know much about the linux device model at all, so I'm not sure
> if that's to be expected.
> 
> However, if I unplug the drive and plug it in again, the value is set
> back to 0 (and the device in the path above would be incremented to 9
> so the path would be ... /scsi_disk:9:0:0:0/allow_restart ).
> 
> Is there a way to set this more generically for this drive? It seems
> like I shouldn't need to do it every time I plug it in.

Read up on "udev" -- this is the sort of thing it can do for you.

Alan Stern


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