Re: sd_resume redundant? [was: [PATCH] libata: implementata_wait_after_reset()]

[Robert Hancock]

Indan Zupancic wrote:
> > > Everything seems to work fine without sd_resume(), so why is it needed?
> > Because not all disks spin up without being told to do so and like it or
> > not spinning disks up on resume is the default behavior.  As I wrote in
> > the other reply, it would be worthwhile to make it configurable.
>
> Not even after they receive a read command? Ugh.

ATA disks are supposed to spin up, yes. SCSI disks require a command to 
tell them to spin up if they're in the "stopped" state.

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