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Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 11:17:33 -0500
From: Steven Walter <srwalter@yahoo.com>
To: Detlev Offenbach <detlev@offenbach.fs.uunet.de>
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Subject: Re: MO-Drive under 2.4.7 usinf vfat
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On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 03:26:58PM +0200, Detlev Offenbach wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have just tested the new 2.4.7 kernel to see, whether it now works with a 
> MO-Drive using the vfat filesystem. Unfortunately it still doesn't. Mounting 
> a disk and writing to it is ok. However, when I try to read a file off the 
> disk, the program crashes with a Segmentation fault and I get a oops in the 
> messages file (see attachment). I tried ksymoops on this file, but either I 
> did something wrong or it couldn't analyse it.
> 
> I hope, this issue will be fixed soon cause I would like to switch over to 
> the 2.4 kernel series without scratching my set of MO-disks.

You might try the -ac series.  I recall 2048 byte blocks being
implemented in its version of vfat (which is likely the problem you're
hitting).  Perhaps that particular patch hasn't made it to Linus' tree,
yet.
-- 
-Steven
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
			-- George Orwell
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