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From: Paul Bristow <paul@paulbristow.net>
To: Jack Howarth <howarth@nitro.med.uc.edu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Richard Gooch <rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca>
Subject: Re: ide-floppy.c vs devfs
Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 23:07:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C016B85.7040207@paulbristow.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200111110439.XAA53352@nitro.msbb.uc.edu>

Hi Jack,

Try the devfs test version that I just uploaded to

http://paulbristow.net/linux/idefloppy.html

This is early days, and I'm not sure what the best approach is...

Feedback is greatly appreaciated.

Jack Howarth wrote:

> Paul,
>    Is ide-floppy supposed to be devfs friendly? I ask
> because on Linux 2.4.15-pre2 (and previous kernels)
> on the Powermac (Debian ppc sid) I find that the
> ide-floppy driver only creates device for my ide 
> zip if a zip disk is inserted at boot time. Otherwise
> the /dev/ide/host1/bus0/target1/lun0 directory doesn't
> contain a device node for the zip whereas the ide-cdrom
> driver creates a /dev/ide/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/cd
> fine without a cdrom disk inserted at boot time. I find
> that the only way I can get the zip device created at
> boot time without media inserted is to use ide-scsi 
> emulation and turn off ide-floppy when I configure the
> kernel. Is this issue a known problem and does it
> exist for other arches than powerpc (Powermac)? Thanks
> in advance for any advice.
>                       Jack
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-11-25 22:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-11-11  4:39 ide-floppy.c vs devfs Jack Howarth
2001-11-23  5:13 ` Richard Gooch
2001-11-25 22:07 ` Paul Bristow [this message]
2001-11-25 22:31   ` Richard Gooch
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-11-12  6:48 Borsenkow Andrej
2001-11-26 10:04 Borsenkow Andrej
2001-11-26 17:44 ` Paul Bristow
2001-11-27 12:34   ` Borsenkow Andrej
2001-11-27 17:47     ` Paul Bristow
2001-11-27 20:38       ` Mike Fedyk

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