hi there, i am not sure if i should post these into gnats, so i offer them for public scrutiny first...
1. when attaching an external usb hard drive, it is identified and everything is dandy, but the moment it appears in dmesg, it spins down. and so the hotplugd script does nothing.... there is no "auto" mounting. (the situation is the same with my iriver flash player, in that case, there is even a message about the drive being "offline") this behaviour is quite recent, my hotplugd script worked ok, and the hard drive did not spin down after attaching it. perhaps this is intentional but hotplugd is quite useless and i have to mount my 2 devices manually (will try my camera later). 2. sd0 is the WD external usb disk after attaching and being recognized: amaaq> sudo atactl sd0 atactl: ATAIOCCOMMAND failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device is it possible to "setidle" an usb external disk? even if for some reason it's a stupid idea (please enlighten me) i think at least "identify" could work, no? here is the dmesg tail for the usb hard drive: umass0 at uhub3 port 4 configuration 1 interface 0 umass0: Western Digital External HDD, rev 2.00/4.11, addr 2 umass0: using SCSI over Bulk-Only scsibus1 at umass0: 2 targets sd0 at scsibus1 targ 1 lun 0: <WD, 2000JB External, 0411> SCSI0 0/direct fixed sd0: 190782MB, 190782 cyl, 64 head, 32 sec, 512 bytes/sec, 390721968 sec total uhidev0 at uhub3 port 4 configuration 1 interface 1 uhidev0: Western Digital External HDD, rev 2.00/4.11, addr 2, iclass 3/0 uhid0 at uhidev0: input=2, output=2, feature=0 and my iriver flash player: umass1 at uhub3 port 5 configuration 1 interface 0 umass1: iRiver Limited. IFP-800 HIGH SPEED, rev 2.00/0.01, addr 3 umass1: using SCSI over Bulk-Only scsibus2 at umass1: 2 targets sd1 at scsibus2 targ 1 lun 0: <iriver, MassStorage Disc, > SCSI0 0/direct removable sd1: drive offline -f -- people have one thing in common, they're all different.
