From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264215AbTDPDTS (for ); Tue, 15 Apr 2003 23:19:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264216AbTDPDTS (for ); Tue, 15 Apr 2003 23:19:18 -0400 Received: from smtp-send.myrealbox.com ([192.108.102.143]:1221 "EHLO smtp-send.myrealbox.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264215AbTDPDTR (for ); Tue, 15 Apr 2003 23:19:17 -0400 Message-ID: <3E9CCE5A.30708@myrealbox.com> Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 20:30:34 -0700 From: walt Organization: none User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030415 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: 2.5.67: ppa driver & preempt == oops References: <3E9C8FE2.8040001@myrealbox.com> <20030415162515.A362@beaverton.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <20030415162515.A362@beaverton.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 ^^^^^^^^^