External disk problem.

[Erik P. Olsen]

On 30/07/12 12:11, Bryn M. Reeves wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-07-30 at 12:09 +0200, Erik P. Olsen wrote:
>> On 30/07/12 11:51, Bryn M. Reeves wrote:
>>> On Mon, 2012-07-30 at 11:42 +0200, Erik P. Olsen wrote:
>>>> On 30/07/12 10:44, Bryn M. Reeves wrote:
>>>>> What state is the device in following a resume?
>>>>> (/sys/block/sd*/device/state).
>>>>
>>>> What is that? I don't see anything near this path on my system. You probably
>>>> mean a faulty resume, in that case I'll have to wait til it happens again.
>>>
>>> No, I meant what state the device is in following a resume.. It should
>>> be "running" prior to the suspend (and at all times during normal
>>> operation).
>>>
>>> The above path is a sysfs attribute that indicates the state of the
>>> block device.
>>>
>>> E.g. for sda on my system:
>>>
>>> $ cat /sys/block/sda/device/state
>>> running
>>
>> It says running both before and after suspend/resume.
>
> When the problem occurs? You'll also need to adjust the device for the
> one that's showing the problem. I used sda as an example as I'm
> currently on a single disk machine.

No the problem didn't occur this time. It has happened twice the past ten days 
and I was aware of the device address. Mine is sdc.

-- 
Erik