On Tue, 28 Aug 2007, Andreas Koenecke wrote: > * Dienstag, 28. August 2007 um 14:48 (-0600) schrieb Matthew Wilcox: > > > > On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 04:45:59PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote: > > > Can any SCSI experts explain what's going wrong here? > > > > It's the PQ 1 -- the device is telling us that it's not actually there > > right now. > > Is anything I can try? You can edit the source code of the SCSI core to make it ignore the PQ value. In the file drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c, find the scsi_bus_match() routine and change the last line from: return (sdp->inq_periph_qual == SCSI_INQ_PQ_CON)? 1: 0; to return 1; Alan Stern - 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