Re: [PATCH] Re: 2.5.67: ppa driver & preempt == oops

[walt <wa1ter@myrealbox.com>]

Patrick Mansfield wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 04:04:02PM -0700, walt wrote:
> 
> 
>>Yes!  Thank you.  This patch fixes the segfault of modprobe that I've 
>>been seeing for ages.
>>
>>Note that the problems I have been seeing are completely different from 
>>Geert's problems.  I have had no problems mounting a FAT-16 fs with the 
>>2.5.x kernels but modprobe has been segfaulting all along, even though 
>>the ppa module works fine for me once it has been loaded.
> 
> 
> The other problem seems to be for removable media. Is your parallel zip
> have removable media and does the boot/dmesg output from sd attach show it
> as such? I haven't used a zip drive, I thought they had to be marked
> removable.

Seems to be:

ppa: Version 2.07 (for Linux 2.4.x)
ppa: Found device at ID 6, Attempting to use EPP 32 bit
ppa: Found device at ID 6, Attempting to use SPP
ppa: Communication established with ID 6 using SPP
scsi0 : Iomega VPI0 (ppa) interface
   Vendor: IOMEGA    Model: ZIP 100           Rev: C.18
   Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
SCSI device sda: 196608 512-byte hdwr sectors (101 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 25 00 00 08
sda: cache data unavailable
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
  /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target6/lun0: p4
Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0
               ^^^^^^^^^