On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 12:10:47PM -0600, James Bottomley wrote: > > Not to hijack the thread, but this is getting to be a broken record. I > was dealing only a few days ago with a camera presenting as a mass > storage device that was then crashing and going offline. I looked at > the dmesg trace which showed that the SCSI layer completes its probing > successfully, and said it was some other extraneous command issued from > user level causing the crash. Sure enough, stopping hald fixed the > camera so it functioned as a mass storage device properly. The bug > report is here: > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/hal/+bug/180472 > > What is the point of having SCSI be so careful in its probing and setup > so as not to annoy these devices, and then have hald or another standard > component blithely go and wreck the device by issuing unwarranted SCSI > commands? > > Can we please stop hald from issuing SCSI commands ... we should have > the infrastructure in place now that renders this unnecessary ... unless > there's still some information it needs that we're not providing? > > James full ack, writing over a stupid hsdpa usb modem that stops working with hald crap. hald keeps resetting the thingy. -- maks - 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
