Stefan Richter wrote: > Joern Quillman wrote: >>>> One problem left. I still can't set or unset the flag with echo even >>>> on 2.6.19-rc6 (as root). > ... >> Permissions of the file are -rw-r--r--. Owner is of course root. >> As I wrote before I can set/unset the flag without any problems when I >> connect a dumb USB<->IDE >> converter with kernel 2.6.18. Same with 2.6.19-rc6. >> >> The complete error message (sorry it's in german here) is: >> "-bash: echo: write error: Das Argument ist ungueltig" >> >> Is there a way to do some debug on the internals to see why the >> attribute isn't actually writeable? Do you need parts of the kernel log? > > The responsible kernel code is drivers/scsi/sd.c::sd_store_allow_restart(). > > static ssize_t sd_store_allow_restart(struct class_device *cdev, const > char *buf, > size_t count) > { > struct scsi_disk *sdkp = to_scsi_disk(cdev); > struct scsi_device *sdp = sdkp->device; > > if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) > return -EACCES; > > if (sdp->type != TYPE_DISK) > return -EINVAL; > > sdp->allow_restart = simple_strtoul(buf, NULL, 10); > > return count; > } > > > I think the solution is easy: Replace if (sdp->type != TYPE_DISK) by > > if (sdp->type != TYPE_DISK && sdp->type != TYPE_RBC) ... but why have the condition at all? What other peripheral device type should the _sd_ driver be handling?? Doug Gilbert - To unsubscribe from this list: 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