On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 11:49:55AM +1100, ronnie sahlberg wrote:
> By just exposing this device to the kernel, the kernel keeps sending,
> or if not the kernel maybe some other process trying to poll the
> status?
> 
> every few seconds :
> PREVENT_ALLOW_MEDIUM_REMOVAL  prevent removal
> PREVENT_ALLOW_MEDIUM_REMOVAL  to immediatel change it back to allow
> removal again
> TEST_UNIT_READY
> 
> 
> After I run this
> mount /dev/sdd1 /mnt
> 
> The kernel sends a single
> PREVENT_ALLOW_MEDIUM_REMOVAL to prevent removal
> then every few seconds a
> TEST_UNIT_READY
> 
> 
> This is what it does for removable SBC disks. Maybe it does something
> differently for "permanent" SBC disks.
> 
> regards
> ronnie sahlberg

There used to be a daemon for this.

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