On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 03:27:49AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Output of "uname -msr" is:
> Linux 2.4.9-e.3 i686
Will not work well, if at all. You need to use 2.6 for you to have a
chance of this succeeding, sorry.
greg k-h
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Ganesh B:
> Pat,
> [many lines]
> -Original Message-
> From: Pat LaVarre [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 3:15 AM
> [many lines]
Ouch, heads up, another silence-provoking taboo of this culture is
"top-posting". See the www.tux.org/lkml/ extract held in focus
Ganesh B:
Please share which fs `mount` reports mounted on the device you're
hot-unplugging while reading. For example, here I have:
$ mount | grep '/dev/hda[12]'
/dev/hda2 on / type ext3 (rw)
/dev/hda1 on /boot type ext3 (rw)
$
> 3)
> May I please know your view, as to whether
Myself I have n
Ganesh B:
> 2) ...
> This problem ... I saw ... with ... "/dev/sdb"
> not seen with ... "/dev/scd0"
I now believe your original post less concisely says something very much
like:
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Hot unplugging a usb-storage device hangs my read app and sometimes my
lk 2.4.9 when using devices such as a /de
Pat,
Thanks for the information.
1)
Output of "uname -msr" is:
Linux 2.4.9-e.3 i686
And, output of "uname -a" is:
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.4.9-e.3 #1 Fri May 3 17:02:43 EDT 2002
i686 unknown
2)
This problem is specific to USB floppies. So, I saw it with device name
"/dev/sdb" only.
In case
Ganesh B:
> reads sectors from an USB floppy.
> ... if I remove the cable ... from the drive,
> read system call never returns ...
> After a while ... machine freezes ... reboot ... by power switch ...
> same thing with USB CD drive ... system call ... reported an error.
> O_NONBLOCK ... open(),
