Thierry, > Some external hard drives don't support the sync command even though > the hard drive has write cache enabled. In this case, upon suspend > request, sync cache failures are ignored if the error code in the > sense header is ILLEGAL_REQUEST. There's not much we can do for these > drives, so we shouldn't fail to suspend for this error case. The drive > may stay powered if that's the setup for the port it's plugged into. Applied to 4.12/scsi-fixes, thanks! -- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering
