I had not yet switched to MDK 8.2, but a disk failure made me go for it a few days ago. All had seemed fine--I was getting things set up the way I wanted them. Then, tonight, I found that the filesystems on Zip disks are being corrupted when I try to delete files (works fine for reading and writing--which I had tried previously). First problem I noticed was that deleting was taking a very long time, with Zip drive light flashing. Then a delete froze the machine, necessitating a hard reboot. I then found that a supposedly empty Zip disk was now showing up (via Konqueror properties and a df) as having significant fractions of the space used, and that I could in fact only write the amount that was showing as free. Further testing showed that deleting files *never* reduces the used space on the disk--though Konqueror and ls list no files! (dosfsck will recover the supposedly deleted files as unused clusters.) Took disks to my Windows machine and it shows same used/free fractions. Reformatted disks and they are fine, but testing shows that deleting files under MDK 8.2 is not returning clusters--i.e., FAT filesystem on the Zip disks is being corrupted. To make sure this was not some sudden drive failure, a booted into an older MDK 8.0 installation on the machine. There the Zip works properly. So, this is a MDK 8.2 problem. The Zip-specific differences between the 8.0 and 8.2 installations include: (1) supermount in 8.2 but not in 8.0; and (2) Zip as ide-scsi in 8.2 but as ide-floppy in 8.0.
Before I started toying with various combinations to try to figure out what is to blame, I thought I would ask if anyone else has had this same problem? (Perhaps you have it and don't know it.) If so, please let me know. Since I have run Zip drives as ide-scsi devices in the past, I would be surprised if that is the problem--unless the newer driver has problems. Thanks! Norm I
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