Re: HFS-Bug in Kernel 2.4.12 and above

pil@mailnet.de
Thu, 15 Nov 2001 21:30:25 +0100


Russell King wrote:
>
> On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 04:13:14PM +0100, pil@mailnet.de wrote:
> > Kernel 2.4.12 is no more able to handle two floppy drives with hfs
> > formated floppies.
> >
> > You can recreate the failure if you have two floppy drives, use Kernel
> > 2.4.12 (and above) with loadable module support for hfs- and
> > vfat-floppies and try to mount the first one with a hfs formated floppy
> > inside. If you unmount the floppy drive again you will get a
> > segmentation fault and an uninterruptible sleep for the mount PID. You
> > cannot mount this drive again.
> >
> > For all other see attached file 'report'.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Wolfgang Pichler
> > ARM MFM AND FLOPPY DRIVERS
> > P: Dave Gilbert
> > M: linux@treblig.org
> > S: Maintained
> >
>
> What is the relevance of the above past from the Linux CREDITS file?
>

Sorry, no relevence at all. Dave Gilbert was the first to whom the
bug-report was sent.

Regards

Wolfgang Pichler

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