On Tue, 10 Jun 2008, Chris Clayton wrote: > What this has shown is that, when I plug in a usb-storage device, there seems > to be a delay between the usb/scsi/usb-storage drivers setting up the device > and my icon-showing script being run. Here is the snippet from the kernel log > file: ... > Jun 10 20:27:45 upstairs kernel: [ 3200.815772] usb-storage: waiting for device > to settle before scanning > Jun 10 20:27:50 upstairs kernel: [ 3205.817115] scsi 10:0:0:0: Direct-Access > USB Flash Memory 5.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 CCS ... You can eliminate this 5-second delay by adding options usb-storage delay_use=0 to /etc/modprobe.conf. Of course, this will make the other delays just stand out that much more sharply... 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