On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 10:21:33PM -0800, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 11/14/18 2:38 PM, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote:
>Mounting an internally installed disk on a laptop spins up all
>disks connected to this machine via USB. And I try to prevent these
>externally connected disks to spin up.
Are the externally connected disks mounted?
No.
>/dev/sda: Device of type 'scsi' [SCSI] detected
>/dev/sda [SAT]: Device open changed type from 'scsi' to 'sat'
>/dev/sda [SAT]: Device of type 'sat' [ATA] opened
>
>(On a side note: I'm astonished that a smartctl simple info flag is
>changing some device type like shown above)
Not really strange. /dev/sd* used to refer to SCSI disks, so it
starts out assuming the drive is SCSI. After checking it, it
determines that it's actually ATA and continues accordingly.
Thanks. I already was suspecting it was something along this line ...
Wolfgang