External disk problem.

[ny6p01 at gmail.com]

On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 06:20:53PM +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...

Well, when you do, it'll be ready. And running. :0

> 
> [egreshko at meimei block]$ cat /sys/block/sdc/device/state
> running
> >
> > 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.
> 
> I am simply dubious that this "state" has any valid meaning.
> 
> 

Terry