Re: data corruption: revalidating a (removable) hdd/flash on re-insert

On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 07:10:07PM +0300, Michael Tokarev wrote:
Well, this one is internal reader, which plugs into a 3" slot.
AND it also has the regular floppy drive in it, too. It's a combo,
a floppy drive AND a USB flash reader. As such, I can't easily
re-plug it (which definitely helps, too, but for that to work I
have to open the case), and I can't replace it either, because
this device is almost unique: I still need a floppy and there's
no other such combo drives, at least I wasn't able to find it.
It's a great device if you think of it: it connects two epochs
together...

Yes I use exactly that made by mitsumi. Never had a problem with the
mitsumi one. I haven't seen anyone with them lately though, so they
made have been discontinued.

It is shown here though:
http://www.mitsumi.com/products/FA404.htm

I have the one on the right with the floppy at the bottom.

So at least a) I'm not alone, and b) there's SOMETHING that works.
Excellent!

That's right.

The thing is that with some older kernel(s) it defeinitely worked.
So I'd say it's the kernel which broke/regressed, not the hardware.
Suggesting to fix the hardware because new kernel does not work with
it anymore is.. strange at least.

Well the mitsumi I have has worked with every kernel I have ever had
(2.6.26 at the moment). The no name reader certainly didn't work right
with early 2.6 kernels, and I haven't bothered with it since to check.

And yes it was definitely a el cheapo no-name thing. But a..
great (epochs!) and hence unique thing, see above.. ;)

I think I paid $27(canadian) for my mitsumi. I paid $20 for the no name
thing (which has no floppy and is external).

I'll try to find out when it broke. My first suspect was the patch
introduced not-so-recently (in 2.6.2x series) to support media
change notifications done by some hardware (wait for notify instead
of constantly polling).

Perhaps. At least you have a simple test case, so a bisect shouldn't be
too hard to do.

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Len Sorensen
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