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    SubjectRE: false positives on disk change checks
    I wrote:

    > I don't know the original posters problem, but I suspect I see something
    > similar. On a to be embedded system with a Geode (Cyrix) CPU and with a
    > ATA compatible CompactFlash drive I get the following messages on
    > bootup:
    >
    > invalidate: busy buffer
    > VFS: busy inodes on changed media.
    >
    > This seems to happen while the system tries to remount the root fs rw.

    The following patch works around the problem for me:

    diff -ruN linux/drivers/ide/ide-probe.c
    linux-scorpio/drivers/ide/ide-probe.c
    --- linux/drivers/ide/ide-probe.c Mon Nov 26 14:29:17 2001
    +++ linux-scorpio/drivers/ide/ide-probe.c Fri Feb 1 12:06:59 2002
    @@ -154,11 +154,14 @@
    return;
    }

    +#if 0
    /*
    * Not an ATAPI device: looks like a "regular" hard disk
    */
    if (id->config & (1<<7))
    drive->removable = 1;
    +#endif
    +
    /*
    * Prevent long system lockup probing later for non-existant
    * slave drive if the hwif is actually a flash memory card of some
    variety:
    It's obviously not a general solution but I know for sure that
    the flashdisk is not removable in our setup.

    Regards
    Joerg

    =====
    --
    Regards
    Joerg

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