Re: 2.5.65 jaz drive devfs oops

[Matthew Harrell]

: > Once the jaz drive spins down and then I try to access it again it either
: > doesn't respond ever, hangs the process permenantly, or generates the
: > attached oops.  If anyone wants more info let me know and I'll reboot back
: > with devfs turned on
: 
: This looks like the devfs (mis-)feature to reread partition tables at
: inappropinquate places is biting us again.
: 
: 
: Could you try the following patch (posted to lkml two times already)?

So far it's looking good.  I waited until the drive had totally spun down 
then tried going to it's automount directory and it spun up and mounted fine

  sdb: Spinning up disk...........ready
  SCSI device sdb: 2091050 512-byte hdwr sectors (1071 MB)
  sdb: Write Protect is off
  sdb: Mode Sense: 39 00 10 08
  SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write back
  SCSI device sdb: 2091050 512-byte hdwr sectors (1071 MB)
  sdb: Write Protect is off
  sdb: Mode Sense: 39 00 10 08
  SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write back
   /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target4/lun0: p4
  found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal
  Reiserfs journal params: device sd(8,20), size 8192, journal first block 18, max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max commit age 30, max trans age 30
  reiserfs: checking transaction log (sd(8,20)) for (sd(8,20))
  Using r5 hash to sort names

I'll try it again in an hour or so with some different tests.  Thanks for the
patch

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