Re: Poor floppy performance in kernel 2.4.10

From: Giuliano Pochini (pochini@shiny.it)
Date: Fri Oct 19 2001 - 02:50:06 EST


> Indeed, only 2.2 trusted the check media change information and left the
> cache valid on top of the floppy across close/open of the blkdev.

Which is not a bad thing IMHO, but it can cause problems with
some broken SCSI implementation where the drive doesn't send
UNIT_ATTENTION after a media change (like my MO drive when I
misconfigured the jumpers, damn :-((( ).

Bye.

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