On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 01:37:28PM +0200, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote: > > Can't we do a test-unit-ready before trying to read and then just not > read the partition table w/o so much noise? We already issue a TUR in sd_spinup_disk() prior to the READ CAPACITY and partition reads. We might not be able to even black list them and not excute specific code if these devices can be configured differently - they might need special code (yuck) to query the device and figure out the configuration. -- Patrick Mansfield