>>>>> "andrey" == Andrey Borzenkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Hi

andrey> As I do not have hardware nor sufficient knowledge about it I
andrey> hardly can fix it. It appears ide-floppy does not implement
andrey> media change detection at all - the only thing it does is fake
andrey> media change on driver ->open. It means supermount never
andrey> detects any disk change of course.

Ide-floppy is quite bad, it is easier (for some things) to use
ide-scsi for zips.  The things that I remembered were that:
- ide-floppy just locks the drive on open, no way to change that.
- ide-scsi had other problems that I forgot :(

Will take a look.

Later, Juan.

andrey> Anyone could get a look? The right thing is probably add sense code decoding 
andrey> to idefloppy_analyze_error and use some innocent command like TEST_UNIT_READY 
andrey> in idefloppy_media_change.

andrey> what our kernel gurus on cooker say? :)


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