Re: Removable media bug

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sun, 30 May 1999 22:46:44 +0100 (BST)


> >at least all Fujitsu MO drives (the vast majority of MOs).

Its not all Fujitsu MO drives. It works fine on my 640AI.

The drive is reported as a scsi-removable (correctly), and if I do
tar xvf /dev/sda

then eject and change disk, then tar xvf /dev/sda

I see two different archives

> >MSDOS formatted disk between two e2fs-formatted ones to force a flush
> in some
> >way.
>
> You can also try to mount the device without inserting a disk (you'll

The MS-DOS one would be a block size change causing a flush. That would
make sense.

Do you see a disk change notification when you change disk or not ?

Alan

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