Could you try this patchlet to fs/partitions/check.c::read_dev_sector() and look if there is any output by dmesg? It's
a bit of a shot in the dark but will at least exclude this as the source for the peoblem...
diff -u -ur linux-2.4.18-pre3-ac2/fs/partitions/check.c linux-2.4.18-pre3-ac2-aia1/fs/partitions/check.c
--- linux-2.4.18-pre3-ac2/fs/partitions/check.c Fri Oct 12 01:25:10 2001
+++ linux-2.4.18-pre3-ac2-aia1/fs/partitions/check.c Tue Jan 15 13:21:24 2002
@@ -410,6 +410,14 @@
int sect = PAGE_CACHE_SIZE / 512;
struct page *page;
+ if (mapping->a_ops->sync_page != block_sync_page) {
+ if (mapping->a_ops->sync_page)
+ printk(KERN_CRIT "read_dev_sector: mapping->a_ops->sync_page != block_sync_page!\n");
+ else {
+ printk(KERN_CRIT "read_dev_sector: mapping->a_ops->sync_page is NULL! Setting to default block_sync_page!\n");
+ mapping->a_ops->sync_page = block_sync_page;
+ }
+ }
page = read_cache_page(mapping, n/sect,
(filler_t *)mapping->a_ops->readpage, NULL);
if (!IS_ERR(page)) {
Best regards,
Anton
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