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Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2001 15:00:28 +0200
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: MO-Drive under 2.4.3
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In-Reply-To: <E14o3Jb-0002q9-00@the-village.bc.nu>; from alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk on Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 02:08:41PM +0100
From: Daniel Kobras <kobras@tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de>
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On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 02:08:41PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > I have a problem using my MO-Drive under kernel 2.4.3. I have several disks 
> > formated with a VFAT filesystem. Under kernel 2.2.19 everything works fine. 
> > Under kernel 2.4.3 I cannot write anything to the disk without hanging the 
> > complete system so that I have to use the reset button. For disks with an 
> > ext2 filesystem it works okay.
> 
> This is a bug in the scsi layer. linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, not that any of
> the scsi maintainers seem to care about it right now.

Err..., now I'm confused. Last time this issue popped up, it was my
understanding that it's generic_file_{read,write}'s limitation to filesystems
with logical_blksize >= hw_blksize that makes MOs fail with VFAT. Now, is
this all moot, or is the SCSI thing just an additional problem?

Regards,

Daniel.

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