On Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 11:35:24AM +0100, Nick Holloway wrote:
> I have a zip disk which I attempted to mount using the following fstab
> entry:
>
> /dev/sda4 /zip vfat noauto,nodev,nosuid,user
>
> This caused a spew of "bread failed" errors, and the mount process ended
> up blocked in "wait_on_buffer". I thought at first that Zip disk had
> gone to silicon heaven.
>
> After rebooting, I had a look at the kernel messages, and was _amazed_ to
> see the following:
>
> SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes.
> Sectors= 196608 [96 MB] [0.1 GB]
> sda: Write Protect is off
> sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4
> floppy0: disk absent or changed during operation
> end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 1
> bread in fat_access failed
> [...]
>
> There are two questions. Firstly, why did the mount process get stuck
> in the kernel, and secondly (and more importantly) what was it doing
> accessing "/dev/fd0"?
Does that follow? Maybe the floppy I/O error occurred at some other
time, or for some other reason. Can you reproduce access of device 02:00
using mount /dev/sda4?
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