Sorry for the late reply. This patch helps noting (apart from the
oops going away). The new symptoms are: writes succeed (reading
the data with 2.1.65 works), but reading the written data
gives some random data out of the MO... (looks like contents of
other files/blocks).
Richard.
On Mon, 16 Feb 1998, Gordon Chaffee wrote:
> Richard Guenther writes:
> > In Kernels 2.1.8x there are problems with the fat filesystem when
> > using 2048 bytes hardblocksize (MO-Drive). It seems that
> > fat uses generic_file_read, but does not implement readpage -
> > whoops! Testing for i_ops->readpage in generic_file_read (which
> > is not done currently) catches the oops, but I rather want
> > fat to work on my MO drive.
>
> Let me know if this patch helps things any.
>
> - Gordon
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