Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Fri, 1 Feb 2002 02:27:53 -0800 (PST) | From | Joerg Pommnitz <> | Subject | RE: false positives on disk change checks |
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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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