Re: External disk problem.

2012-07-30 Thread ny6p01
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 11:01:53AM +0100, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: > On Mon, 2012-07-30 at 06:48 -0300, Fernando Cassia wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 6:32 AM, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: > > > Do you see that happen a lot? > > > > Do you mean the error, or the sharing of scripts? > > The error: it's

Re: External disk problem.

2012-07-30 Thread 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/bloc

Re: External disk problem.

2012-07-30 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On Mon, 2012-07-30 at 05:55 -0700, ny6...@gmail.com wrote: > On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 09:44:24AM +0100, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: > > On Sun, 2012-07-29 at 20:13 -0700, ny6...@gmail.com wrote: > > > That's not a disk problem. That's the disk failing to remount itself > > > properly after the suspend. Th

Re: External disk problem.

2012-07-30 Thread ny6p01
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 poi

Re: External disk problem.

2012-07-30 Thread ny6p01
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 09:44:24AM +0100, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: > On Sun, 2012-07-29 at 20:13 -0700, ny6...@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 unm

Re: External disk problem.

2012-07-30 Thread Ed Greshko
On 07/30/2012 06:51 PM, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: > Not at all but posts should be relevant to the thread and explain > anything that other readers might need to know (like the fact that you > don't have any problems, are running commands on a different type of > device that's also removable etc.). Wh

Re: External disk problem.

2012-07-30 Thread Ed Greshko
On 07/30/2012 06:35 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > Well... Since it is your day job. And I am sure you are willing to impart > your wisdom on folks > > If a drive is not plugged into a port, then what does "running" mean? Hummm. Now I find this "strange". I had done a "Net" install on

Re: External disk problem.

2012-07-30 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On Mon, 2012-07-30 at 18:35 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 07/30/2012 06:29 PM, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: > > Do you have a card reader device? > > Yes And that is sde. I would guess it's a multi-card reader device and those additional SCSI device nodes correspond to empty slots within the reader

Re: External disk problem.

2012-07-30 Thread Ed Greshko
On 07/30/2012 06:29 PM, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: > 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

Re: External disk problem.

2012-07-30 Thread 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

Re: External disk problem.

2012-07-30 Thread Ed Greshko
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 day

Re: External disk problem.

2012-07-30 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On Mon, 2012-07-30 at 18:04 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 07/30/2012 05:59 PM, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: > > On Mon, 2012-07-30 at 17:47 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > >> On 07/30/2012 04:44 PM, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: > >>> What state is the device in following a resume? > >>> (/sys/block/sd*/device/state).

Re: External disk problem.

2012-07-30 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
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). > >

Re: External disk problem.

2012-07-30 Thread Erik P. Olsen
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

Re: External disk problem.

2012-07-30 Thread Ed Greshko
On 07/30/2012 05:59 PM, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: > On Mon, 2012-07-30 at 17:47 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: >> On 07/30/2012 04:44 PM, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: >>> What state is the device in following a resume? >>> (/sys/block/sd*/device/state). >> I am not so sure that is a "good" indication of anything.

Re: External disk problem.

2012-07-30 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On Mon, 2012-07-30 at 06:48 -0300, Fernando Cassia wrote: > On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 6:32 AM, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: > > Do you see that happen a lot? > > Do you mean the error, or the sharing of scripts? The error: it's an abnormal condition so if you are seeing that, especially if it is happenin

Re: External disk problem.

2012-07-30 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On Mon, 2012-07-30 at 17:47 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 07/30/2012 04:44 PM, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: > > What state is the device in following a resume? > > (/sys/block/sd*/device/state). > > I am not so sure that is a "good" indication of anything. I have 2 drives on > my system /dev/sda and /d

Re: External disk problem.

2012-07-30 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
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 tha

Re: External disk problem.

2012-07-30 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 6:32 AM, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: > Do you see that happen a lot? Do you mean the error, or the sharing of scripts? In any case, thanks in advance for helping the community. ;-P FC -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription opt

Re: External disk problem.

2012-07-30 Thread Ed Greshko
On 07/30/2012 04:44 PM, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: > What state is the device in following a resume? > (/sys/block/sd*/device/state). I am not so sure that is a "good" indication of anything. I have 2 drives on my system /dev/sda and /dev/sdb. [egreshko@meimei block]$ cat /sys/block/sdd/device/state

Re: External disk problem.

2012-07-30 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 30/07/12 10:44, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: On Sun, 2012-07-29 at 20:13 -0700, ny6...@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 susp

Re: External disk problem.

2012-07-30 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On Mon, 2012-07-30 at 06:29 -0300, Fernando Cassia wrote: > On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 12:13 AM, wrote: > > 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 'zom

Re: External disk problem.

2012-07-30 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 12:13 AM, wrote: > 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. It would be great if you could share it... FC -- u

Re: External disk problem.

2012-07-30 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On Sun, 2012-07-29 at 20:13 -0700, ny6...@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

Re: External disk problem.

2012-07-29 Thread ny6p01
On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 09:59:56AM +0200, Erik P. Olsen wrote: > I have an external 1 TB harddisk e-sata attached used for backups. > The problem is that I have few times lost connection to it. I have > taken up the habit of suspending (to RAM) when I leave the machine > for a while and the proble

External disk problem.

2012-07-29 Thread Erik P. Olsen
I have an external 1 TB harddisk e-sata attached used for backups. The problem is that I have few times lost connection to it. I have taken up the habit of suspending (to RAM) when I leave the machine for a while and the problem seems to happen when I reactivate the system though not every time