External disk problem.

[Bryn M. Reeves]

On Mon, 2012-07-30 at 18:20 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 07/30/2012 06:16 PM, Bryn M. Reeves wrote:
> > In this case a suggestion that for whatever reason the kernel hasn't
> > properly dealt with the removal of the device that had been assigned to
> > sdd (it presumably existed at some point for the sysfs path to have been
> > created).
> 
> Fresh install, 2 days ago....  Never had a drive there...  And Never had a drive in sdc either...

Do you have a card reader device?
 
> > If you're not getting entries in the logs when the problem happens you
> > can either look at other ways to get the logs out (e.g. serial console)
> > or you can try suspending and resuming from the console to see if
> > anything is printed (I have no idea if you are or not - you haven't
> > actually described the problem you are seeing so I'm just assuming it's
> > the "same" as Erik described since you are replying to his thread).
> 
> I don't have *any* problems on my system....  I never said I did....check the archive.

Not clear why you're replying to the thread then.

> I am simply dubious that this "state" has any valid meaning.

Supporting Linux storage configurations is my day job and I'd tend to
disagree. I guess the SCSI maintainers share that view since they've
chosen to maintain the file (and the internal state it maps to) for some
time.

Not knowing how debug from or interpret a particular piece of
information does not render that information useless.

Bryn.