Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Removable media bug | Date | Wed, 5 May 1999 09:04:41 +0200 (MEST) | From | (Rogier Wolff) |
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Alan Cox wrote: > > >He has a faulty floppy drive, everyone else doesn't is the short > > summary. > > >The FDC has a "disk changed" detection line. > > > > I was spaking about a SCSI magneto-optical drive, not a floppy disk. > > Anyway... Have some of you a removable media to repeat the test I did > > ?? > > I did a lot of SCSI M/O testing and the media change works. There is a faulty > 'eject' tool around that does scsi ejects via scsi generic and does not > do cache flushes, otherwise it is fine providing your M/O drive reports > itself as optical and/or removable block device
One of these days I'll get enough time to look into this, but I was amongst the people shouting that his device must be broken until yesterday I ran into the same problem.
The Linux kernel is slow enough in responding to media changes that I can swap my DVD-RAM disks around and get an "old" contents when it is reinserted. There really is something murky going on here, but I haven't had time to fully investigate yet.
Regards,
Roger.
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