Alan Stern sez: > Sure. But that won't do any good if the requests get held on > the queue > (or failed immediately) because the disk is supposedly "suspended". > Somehow those requests have to be allowed to proceed while all others > are forced to wait (or to fail). Not a failure. Not ready is reported back in a check condition on a media based request, a spin-up request is issued, then a subsequent loop sits there probing every second with a Test Unit ready to wait for the drive to spin back up. There is ample time provided in this path for the drive to spin-up. Sincerely -- Mark Salyzyn - 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
