Re: ide-floppy & devfs - /dev entry not created if drive is empty

[Kevin P. Fleming]

This problem is present on all devices supported by the ide-floppy 
driver. It won't be fixed until the ide-probe patch makes it into the 
official kernel. At that point the /dev/discs/... entry for the drive 
will appear at boot time even without media present in the drive.

However, without my other media change handling patches, the partition 
entries inside the /dev/discs/... directory for the floppy drive will 
not stay in sync terribly well when you make media changes.

Stanislav Brabec wrote:
> Stanislav Brabec wrote:
> 
>>If module ide-floppy is loaded and no disc is present in the drive,
>>/dev/ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0/disc entry is not created. Later
>>inserted media cannot be checked in any way, because no /dev entry
>>exists.
>>
> 
> Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
> 
>>diff -X dontdiff -urN linux/drivers/ide/ide-probe.c
>>linux-probe/drivers/ide/ide-probe.c
> 
> 
> Does anybody know, whether this problem was present on LS-120/240,
> IOMEGA PocketZip and JAZ devices and is fixed now?
>