Re: Zip drive SCSI layer cock-up?

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
Sun, 15 Feb 1998 17:25:10 -0800 (PST)


>
> Ooops. It seems to work fine now with CDs and Minix disk images, so it
> must just be the floppy driver which is causing problems.
>
> Sorry.
>

The floppy driver is broken in 2.1.79-2.1.86, and can cause severe
data corruption.

>
> Out of curiosity, how could dodgy media (i.e. broken block driver) cause a
> "lookup on existing dentry"? Does autofs make the dentry first and then
> find that it has to retry the mount a few times?
>

Probably.

-hpa

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