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> >>>>> "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.

is it really the case even with my patches? I added the same logic as in other
drivers for managing drive locked state and so far nobody complained.

> - ide-scsi had other problems that I forgot :(
> 

my concern is mostly 2.6 as in 2.4 you can use ide-scsi; but 2.6 ide-scsi was
broken last time I checked.

> Will take a look.
> 

if you have a patch drop me a note; I'd like to put it (or link to it) on
supermount page, the problem appears to be fairly common.

-andrey

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