Loading the ppa module causes a kernel oops... apparently it causes some
trouble for the interrupt handler. It is a bit difficult to provide the
oops here since it freezes the entire machine, but I will try to break
my test box with this later today.
I am running 2.5 on an Intel PIII.
Affected kernels:
Linux 2.5.4-pre2 (and probably 2.5.3 and 2.5.4-pre1 since these both
have Evgeniy Polyakov's updates to "various SCSI
drivers to new locking" which includes ppa.c)
Who is maintaining the linux iomega stuff?
On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 02:51:27PM -0500, John Weber wrote:
> Who is maintaining the linux iomega stuff?
For 2.4.x, me (in theory). I don't have time for 2.5.x at the moment.
Tim.
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>I was wondering if you had received my patch. I had mail problems on Monday
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>Rich
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I did try out the patch.
The first time I used the driver there was major damage to the fs on one
of my zip disks (so the "mv bigassfile /mnt/zip/" failed miserably), but
I couldn't be sure that the driver was the root cause so I didn't email
you about it.
Thereafter, I tried mounting/unmounting, writing new filesystems,
writing/reading large files...
everything checked out fine.
You should definitely forward your patch to LKML and Linus.
The following patch allows parallel port zip drives to work with 2.5 kernels.
This patch has been tested with both imm and ppa drives. Thanks to John
Weber for testing the ppa part of this patch.
Rich
I found that booting 2.5.* with a disk in the ZIP drive
causes an immediate crash. Also, that this is fixed by
the patch by Rich Baum from a few days ago.
Andries