hi all: we met a USB Hard Disk that will go to suspend if host stop sending scsi read command over 5mins. To save the IO, kernel will keep the file in page cache as much as he can and under this circumstances, the read command may disappear for a while longer enough to cause the device suspend. is there any kernel config or module parameter can do the dummy read periodically, even the sector 0 (MBR) is fine. or is there any kernel api I can use to read sector 0(MBR) maybe every 4mins? appreciate your help in advance, -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html