Re: MO-Drive under 2.4.3

Daniel Kobras
2001-04-14T13:31:42Z

On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 02:08:41PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > I have a problem using my MO-Drive under kernel 2.4.3. I have several disks
> > formated with a VFAT filesystem. Under kernel 2.2.19 everything works fine.
> > Under kernel 2.4.3 I cannot write anything to the disk without hanging the
> > complete system so that I have to use the reset button. For disks with an
> > ext2 filesystem it works okay.
>
> This is a bug in the scsi layer. linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, not that any of
> the scsi maintainers seem to care about it right now.

Err..., now I'm confused. Last time this issue popped up, it was my
understanding that it's generic_file_{read,write}'s limitation to filesystems
with logical_blksize >= hw_blksize that makes MOs fail with VFAT. Now, is
this all moot, or is the SCSI thing just an additional problem?

Regards,

Daniel.

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