Package: pcmciautils Version: 012-3 Severity: normal I inserted a pcmcia CF adapter containing a partition with a FAT filesystem and tried to mount it, but /dev/hde1 was not there, though /dev/hde was. I eventually realised that hde1 was being constantly deleted and recreated over and over. ls showed it there and missing, randomly.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/>while :; do ls /dev/hde*; done /dev/hde /dev/hde /dev/hde /dev/hde /dev/hde /dev/hde /dev/hde /dev/hde1 ls: /dev/hde1: No such file or directory /dev/hde /dev/hde /dev/hde /dev/hde /dev/hde /dev/hde1 /dev/hde /dev/hde1 /dev/hde /dev/hde1 ls: /dev/hde1: No such file or directory /dev/hde /dev/hde /dev/hde /dev/hde /dev/hde /dev/hde I manually used mknod to create the device file in /tmp, and then was able to mount and access it with no difficulty. Here's the kernel log: Feb 6 12:27:23 dragon kernel: pccard: PCMCIA card inserted into slot 0 Feb 6 12:27:23 dragon kernel: pcmcia: registering new device pcmcia0.0 Feb 6 12:27:24 dragon kernel: Probing IDE interface ide2... Feb 6 12:27:24 dragon kernel: hde: Renesas XX.V.3.5.0.0, CFA DISK drive Feb 6 12:27:25 dragon kernel: ide2 at 0x100-0x107,0x10e on irq 3 Feb 6 12:27:25 dragon kernel: hde: max request size: 128KiB Feb 6 12:27:25 dragon kernel: hde: 2002896 sectors (1025 MB) w/1KiB Cache, CHS=1987/16/63 Feb 6 12:27:25 dragon kernel: hde: cache flushes not supported Feb 6 12:27:25 dragon kernel: hde: hde1 Feb 6 12:27:25 dragon kernel: ide-cs: hde: Vcc = 3.3, Vpp = 0.0 Feb 6 12:27:25 dragon kernel: hde: hde1 Feb 6 12:29:16 dragon kernel: hde: hde1 Feb 6 12:29:21 dragon last message repeated 37 times Feb 6 12:29:46 dragon kernel: hde: hde1 Feb 6 12:30:16 dragon last message repeated 148 times Feb 6 12:31:17 dragon last message repeated 386 times Feb 6 12:32:01 dragon last message repeated 300 times Feb 6 12:32:01 dragon kernel: hde: hde1 Feb 6 12:32:06 dragon last message repeated 28 times Feb 6 12:32:06 dragon kernel: hde: hde1 Feb 6 12:32:37 dragon last message repeated 145 times Feb 6 12:33:38 dragon last message repeated 349 times Feb 6 12:34:36 dragon last message repeated 442 times Apparently each of these "hde: hde1" printk's corresponds to a deletion and recretion of the device node. After I mounted the device, used it for a while, and unmounted it, this activity had stopped, now /dev/hde1 is stable. If I eject and re-insert the card, the same problem occurs. If I eject the card while this storm is ongoing, my system freezes hard with the pcmcia activity LED showing constant pcmcia activity. I don't really know if this is a pcmciautils, udev, kernel, or all three bug. Using the 2.4 kernel and pcmcia-cs, this card works fine. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-686 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages pcmciautils depends on: ii libc6 2.3.5-12 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libsysfs1 1.3.0-7 interface library to sysfs ii module-init-tools 3.2.2-1 tools for managing Linux kernel mo Versions of packages pcmciautils recommends: ii udev 0.084-1 /dev/ and hotplug management daemo -- no debconf information Here's what the kernel has to say about my pcmcia at boot: Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:00:0c.0 [10cf:10c6] Yenta: adjusting diagnostic: 41 -> 61 Yenta: Enabling burst memory read transactions Yenta: Using CSCINT to route CSC interrupts to PCI Yenta: Routing CardBus interrupts to PCI Yenta TI: socket 0000:00:0c.0, mfunc 0x00c61d22, devctl 0x46 Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x0cf8, PCI irq 9 Socket status: 30000006 -- see shy jo
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature
