On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 13:23 -0400, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
see the 2nd hit searching google for megasas:
http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-poweredge/2007-March/029992.html
In this mail it mentions: echo 120 > /sys/block/sda/device/timeout It seems to have stabilised the system. I noticed recently that my USB devices like my mobile phone mount as SCSI device sda: Jul 11 23:27:53 dodo kernel: usb 6-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 6 Jul 11 23:27:54 dodo kernel: usb 6-2: new device found, idVendor=0fce, idProduct=d016 Jul 11 23:27:54 dodo kernel: usb 6-2: new device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3 Jul 11 23:27:54 dodo kernel: usb 6-2: Product: Sony Ericsson D750 Jul 11 23:27:54 dodo kernel: usb 6-2: Manufacturer: Sony Ericsson Jul 11 23:27:54 dodo kernel: usb 6-2: SerialNumber: 9849819488923838_0 Jul 11 23:27:54 dodo kernel: usb 6-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice Jul 11 23:27:54 dodo kernel: cdc_acm 6-2:1.1: ttyACM0: USB ACM device Jul 11 23:27:54 dodo kernel: cdc_acm 6-2:1.3: ttyACM1: USB ACM device Jul 11 23:27:54 dodo kernel: scsi4 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices Jul 11 23:27:54 dodo kernel: usb-storage: device found at 6 Jul 11 23:27:54 dodo kernel: usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning Jul 11 23:27:55 dodo kernel: Vendor: Sony Eri Model: Memory Stick Rev: 0000 Jul 11 23:27:55 dodo kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00 Jul 11 23:27:55 dodo kernel: SCSI device sda: 1951744 512-byte hdwr ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ sectors (999 MB) Jul 11 23:27:55 dodo kernel: sda: Write Protect is off Jul 11 23:27:55 dodo kernel: sda: Mode Sense: 00 6a 00 00 Jul 11 23:27:55 dodo kernel: sda: assuming drive cache: write through Jul 11 23:27:55 dodo kernel: SCSI device sda: 1951744 512-byte hdwr sectors (999 MB) Jul 11 23:27:55 dodo kernel: sda: Write Protect is off Jul 11 23:27:55 dodo kernel: sda: Mode Sense: 00 6a 00 00 Jul 11 23:27:55 dodo kernel: sda: assuming drive cache: write through Jul 11 23:27:55 dodo kernel: sda: sda1 Jul 11 23:27:55 dodo kernel: sd 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sda Jul 11 23:27:55 dodo kernel: sd 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0 Jul 11 23:27:55 dodo kernel: usb-storage: device scan complete What is the best way to set the timeout to 120 permanently at boot-up as is done with echo 120 > /sys/block/sda/device/timeout manually? :-) Al -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org