Re: CDROM troubles -- followup

[Phil Stracchino <alaric@babcom.com>]

On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 04:17:01PM -0700, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> The patch does indeed seem to prevent the panic, but not the underlying
> problem.  Here's the results of a series of mount/umount operations after
> applying the patch:
> 
> 	*** CD inserted
> VFS: Disk change detected on device sr(11,0)
> 	*** first mount (succeeded)
> ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
> 	*** second mount (succeeded)
> ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
> 	*** third mount (succeeded)
> ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
> 	*** fourth and subsequent mounts failed
> sr: ran out of mem for scatter pad
>  I/O error: dev 0b:00, sector 252
> isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev=0b:00, iso_blknum=63, block=126
> sr: ran out of mem for scatter pad
>  I/O error: dev 0b:00, sector 0
> sr: ran out of mem for scatter pad
>  I/O error: dev 0b:00, sector 64
> sr: ran out of mem for scatter pad
>  I/O error: dev 0b:00, sector 0
> 	*** the last manual mount attempt
> sr: ran out of mem for scatter pad
>  I/O error: dev 0b:00, sector 64


I have just updated to kernel 2.4.4-ac6 and modutils-2.4.6.  While the
sr-scatter patch alone did not fix this problem, after uupgrading to -ac6,
the problem no longer appears to be present.  


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