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On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 3:29 PM, walt <w41ter@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On 02/02/2011 07:48 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: |
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>> I have a USB SD-card reader which cannot read the partition table when |
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>> first inserted into the PC. But, if I issue "hdparm -z /dev/sdg" then |
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>> the kernel re-reads the partition table and everything works fine |
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>> after that. |
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> That sounds to me like a bug :) Is it 100% reproducible, and do you see |
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> the same on other computers? |
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> And, let us not forget the Ultimate Gold Standard: does it work on Windows? |
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Yes, it is exactly the same every time |
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Yes, every computer (for several kernel versions now) |
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Yes, it works in Windows straight away (without doing any tricks) |
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One thing I have not tried yet is to set delay_use option of |
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usb-storage to a higher value. Maybe the device is still starting up |
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and kernel tries to initialize it too quickly. I have usb-storage |
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compiled into kernel now, instead of as a module, so I need to |
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remember to change that that next time I plan to reboot. |
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