Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 19 Oct 2001 09:50:06 +0200 (CEST) | From | Giuliano Pochini <> | Subject | Re: Poor floppy performance in kernel 2.4.10 |
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> Indeed, only 2.2 trusted the check media change information and left the > cache valid on top of the floppy across close/open of the blkdev.
Which is not a bad thing IMHO, but it can cause problems with some broken SCSI implementation where the drive doesn't send UNIT_ATTENTION after a media change (like my MO drive when I misconfigured the jumpers, damn :-((( ).
Bye.
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