>> I just got one of these: >> >> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820208913 >> >> It seems to work fine except I get the following after ejecting it in Thunar: >> >> sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Synchronizing SCSI cache >> sd 8:0:0:0: Device offlined - not ready after error recovery > > That's to be expected. Lots of devices will shut down after userspace > told it to power down. It was a feature request that Thunar and > Nautilus added a year or so ago. > > Not all devices will do this, as their firmware does not support the > powerdown command, which is why older devices do not act like this. > > If you don't like this, don't eject the device :) OK good point. In light of this, here's the real problem. Ejecting the SSD results in the "Writing data to device" desktop notification persisting on the desktop instead of disappearing after a few seconds like it does with my other external drives. The following messages appears in dmesg which does not appear when ejecting my other external drives: sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Synchronizing SCSI cache sd 8:0:0:0: Device offlined - not ready after error recovery Unplugging and replugging the device does not result in the reappearance of the /dev/sdb device file like it does with my other external drives. The only way to bring the /dev/sdb device file back is to 'modprobe -r xhci_hcd && modprobe xhci_hcd'. I originally wrote a problem report like this but then I convinced myself that the *real* problem was the one I described in my previous message which Greg proved it is not. - Grant -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
