Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 08:41:45 -0500 (EST) From: "matthew c. mead" <mmead@Glock.COM> To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: a little bit more information on the jaz drive situation... Message-ID: <199603191341.IAA04250@neon.Glock.COM> In-Reply-To: <199603190654.RAA06722@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Mar 19, 96 05:54:14 pm
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Bruce Evans writes: > > The suggestion you made about ffs_unmount() and > >vn_close() halfway worked. I reversed the order of the calls, > >and the drives are now able to eject once they've been unmounted. > >Unfortunately, however, something is still wrong because if you > >try to reinsert the cartridge and mount it again, it ends up > >complaining that the device is busy. I'm guessing here, but does > >this have something to do with some other counter not being > >decremented properly so that the kernel thinks the device is > >still being used? > Try the fix in -current. I'll sup it and try it out tonight. For temporary use I've got the "> 2" patch installed so I can back things up normally, but I'd like to have a real fix... > The bug affects my zip drive too. It worked a week or two ago, but > not today for ufs mounted file systems. It still works for ext2fs > mounted file systems because there is no vmio stuff for ext2fs. I haven't played with ext2fs at all - might be a reason to play with caldera at some point. The bug affected my JAZ and my EZ135 drives... -matt -- Matthew C. Mead mmead@Glock.COM http://www.Glock.COM/~mmead/
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