Re: Poor floppy performance in kernel 2.4.10

Giuliano Pochini (pochini@shiny.it)
Fri, 19 Oct 2001 09:50:06 +0200 (CEST)

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> Indeed, only 2.2 trusted the check media change information and left the
> cache valid on top of the floppy across close/open of the blkdev.

Which is not a bad thing IMHO, but it can cause problems with
some broken SCSI implementation where the drive doesn't send
UNIT_ATTENTION after a media change (like my MO drive when I
misconfigured the jumpers, damn :-((( ).

Bye.

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