James: This patch adds a delay tailored for USB flash devices that are slow to initialize their firmware. The symptom is a repeated Unit Attention with ASC=0x28 (Not Ready to Ready transition). The patch will wait for up to 5 seconds for such devices to become ready. Normal devices won't send the repeated Unit Attention sense key and hence won't trigger the patch. This fixes a problem with James Roberts-Thomson's USB device, and I've seen several reports of other devices exhibiting the same symptoms -- presumably they will be helped as well. Alan Stern Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Index: usb-2.6/drivers/scsi/sd.c =================================================================== --- usb-2.6.orig/drivers/scsi/sd.c +++ usb-2.6/drivers/scsi/sd.c @@ -987,7 +987,7 @@ static void sd_spinup_disk(struct scsi_disk *sdkp, char *diskname, struct scsi_request *SRpnt, unsigned char *buffer) { unsigned char cmd[10]; - unsigned long spintime_value = 0; + unsigned long spintime_expire = 0; int retries, spintime; unsigned int the_result; struct scsi_sense_hdr sshdr; @@ -1074,12 +1074,27 @@ sd_spinup_disk(struct scsi_disk *sdkp, c scsi_wait_req(SRpnt, (void *)cmd, (void *) buffer, 0/*512*/, SD_TIMEOUT, SD_MAX_RETRIES); - spintime_value = jiffies; + spintime_expire = jiffies + 100 * HZ; + spintime = 1; } - spintime = 1; /* Wait 1 second for next try */ msleep(1000); printk("."); + + /* + * Wait for USB flash devices with slow firmware. + * Yes, this sense key/ASC combination shouldn't + * occur here. It's characteristic of these devices. + */ + } else if (sense_valid && + sshdr.sense_key == UNIT_ATTENTION && + sshdr.asc == 0x28) { + if (!spintime) { + spintime_expire = jiffies + 5 * HZ; + spintime = 1; + } + /* Wait 1 second for next try */ + msleep(1000); } else { /* we don't understand the sense code, so it's * probably pointless to loop */ @@ -1091,8 +1106,7 @@ sd_spinup_disk(struct scsi_disk *sdkp, c break; } - } while (spintime && - time_after(spintime_value + 100 * HZ, jiffies)); + } while (spintime && time_before_eq(jiffies, spintime_expire)); if (spintime) { if (scsi_status_is_good(the_result)) - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html