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    [SCSI] sd: pause in sd_spinup_disk for slow USB devices · 4451e472
    Alan Stern authored
    This patch adds a delay tailored for USB flash devices that are slow to
    initialize their firmware.  The symptom is a repeated Unit Attention with
    ASC=0x28 (Not Ready to Ready transition).  The patch will wait for up to 5
    seconds for such devices to become ready.  Normal devices won't send the
    repeated Unit Attention sense key and hence won't trigger the patch.
    
    This fixes a problem with James Roberts-Thomson's USB device, and I've
    seen several reports of other devices exhibiting the same symptoms --
    presumably they will be helped as well.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAlan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
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