Messages in this thread |  | | From | Peter Fox <> | Subject | Re: Partital Fix: Media-Change after generic-scsi-read | Date | Mon, 29 Apr 1996 19:12:23 GMT |
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Thomas Niederreiter <tn@bv.rz.fh-muenchen.de> wrote:
> I do now force the kernel upon closing the sg-device to invalidate > the read-cache. I know this is brute-force attack, but it works me.
> This patch is missing a very important thing...The right device have > to be invalidated, so if you worked with /dev/sgd, the kernel must > find out that this corresponds to /dev/sr0 and invalidate /dev/sr0. > I hardcoded in the moment /dev/sr0....
I think all removable media should do this. It is a pain to have to eject the floppy and reinsert it to make sure that a tar df /dev/fd0 verifies the data on the floppy, not what's in the cache.
Peter.
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