Re: usb-storage && iRIVER flash player problem

[Javier Marcet]

* Matthew Dharm <mdharm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [040105 20:02]:

> It looks like your device is choking over the ALLOW_MEDIUM_REMOVAL command
> -- I've never seen a device broken in this particular way before.

> If you edit drivers/scsi/sd.c to remove the sending of that command (it's
> normally used to lock the media-eject button on devices that support it),
> we should be able to test this theory.  If this is the case, then we may
> need to modify the SCSI layer to only send that command if the RMB bit is
> set.

That did it, with this fix I have no problems. fdisk still reports
mangled partitions, parted OTOH reports one partition filling the whole
device. I can mount either /dev/sda or /dev/sda4 and get the same
correct results.

Thanks a lot :) You've made me happy for the coming days ;)
Until your message I was messing around with unusual_devs.h to no
avail...


--
Javier Marcet <javier@xxxxxxxxxxx>
--- linux/drivers/scsi/scsi_ioctl.c.orig	2004-01-01 09:12:20.000000000 +0100
+++ linux/drivers/scsi/scsi_ioctl.c	2004-01-05 20:42:03.979349544 +0100
@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@
 	if (!sdev->removable || !sdev->lockable)
 	       return 0;
 
-	scsi_cmd[0] = ALLOW_MEDIUM_REMOVAL;
+	scsi_cmd[0] = 0;
 	scsi_cmd[1] = 0;
 	scsi_cmd[2] = 0;
 	scsi_cmd[3] = 0;