Subject: Re: umass woe: sd0(umass0:0:0): readonly device & drive offline
To: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
From: Eric Haszlakiewicz <erh@jodi.nimenees.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 11/17/2005 17:55:13
On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 12:05:22AM +0100, Martin Husemann wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 11:17:41PM +0100, Michael van Elst wrote:
> > We have devices that react erroneously when given a specific command.
> 
> Where erroneously is not necessarily unrecoverable.
> 
> > The correct solution is to not send the command
> 
> Maybe, but maybe the easiest way to detect the situation is to send it
> and gracefully fail.

	I thought someone said earlier in this thread that the device
in question stops responding when you send it the door lock command.
How is it possible to recover from that?

eric