Re: MO-Disk on PPC with 53C94 SCSI-chip

Giuliano Pochini (pochini@denise.shiny.it)
Thu, 19 Aug 1999 22:45:46 CEST

>I have a LinuxPPC R5 system running on a PowerMac 7200 with the
>2.2.12pre8 kernel.
[...]
>I can create a fs on the partiton, I can read/write from/to it. BUT,
>when I try to change the side of the media I get the same fs tree as
on
>the first side.

Some removable medias don't tell Linux when you change the disk. The
easies way to make it work is to try to mount the device before
reinserting a new disk (you'll get some orrors of course... ignore
them), so Linux notices you changed it.

>So I tried booting without media in to verify if it works on the clean
>way. This what the dmesg says:

[...]

Strange. I get a "READ CAPACITY failed, blah blah blah", but then all
works fine.

[PMac 7300, MO Fujitsu 640MB on ext. SCSI bus]

Bye.

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