External disk problem.

[ny6p01 at gmail.com]

On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 09:44:24AM +0100, Bryn M. Reeves wrote:
> On Sun, 2012-07-29 at 20:13 -0700, ny6p01 at gmail.com wrote:
> > That's not a disk problem. That's the disk failing to remount itself
> > properly after the suspend. This is very common. In fact, I wrote a script
> > (in Gentoo) to unmount external drives before a suspend operation, so that
> > the numbering of disks in /dev don't become littered with 'zombie' drives.
> > 
> > I'm sure there's a super-slick way of getting drives to remount themselves
> > after a suspend, but mounting drives is relatively easy to do either with
> > gui or cli tools, so I don't tear my hair over it.
> 
> An eSATA device should be able to suspend and resume properly (just like
> the other ATA devices in your system).
> 
> Debugging it may be difficult unless you can get console logs showing
> what's happening during the suspend/resume cycle (serial console or
> possibly netconsole).
> 
> What state is the device in following a resume?
> (/sys/block/sd*/device/state).
> 

Never knew about that file. Thanks!

Terry