: > Once the jaz drive spins down and then I try to access it again it either
: > doesn't respond ever, hangs the process permenantly, or generates the
: > attached oops. If anyone wants more info let me know and I'll reboot back
: > with devfs turned on
:
: This looks like the devfs (mis-)feature to reread partition tables at
: inappropinquate places is biting us again.
:
:
: Could you try the following patch (posted to lkml two times already)?
So far it's looking good. I waited until the drive had totally spun down
then tried going to it's automount directory and it spun up and mounted fine
sdb: Spinning up disk...........ready
SCSI device sdb: 2091050 512-byte hdwr sectors (1071 MB)
sdb: Write Protect is off
sdb: Mode Sense: 39 00 10 08
SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write back
SCSI device sdb: 2091050 512-byte hdwr sectors (1071 MB)
sdb: Write Protect is off
sdb: Mode Sense: 39 00 10 08
SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write back
/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target4/lun0: p4
found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal
Reiserfs journal params: device sd(8,20), size 8192, journal first block 18, max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max commit age 30, max trans age 30
reiserfs: checking transaction log (sd(8,20)) for (sd(8,20))
Using r5 hash to sort names
I'll try it again in an hour or so with some different tests. Thanks for the
patch
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