Re: Bad Floppy buffering in Verion 2.3.36

From: Richard B. Johnson (root@chaos.analogic.com)
Date: Thu Jan 13 2000 - 07:43:49 EST


On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Alexander Viro wrote:

>
>
> On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
>
> > Somebody isn't invalidating buffers when the floppy is unmounted.
> > In all cases, the floppy contents are correct. It's just that
> > 'memory' contents are not, and memory contents are being used for
> > the next device access.
>
> Check 2.3.39. There were changes in handling that stuff and they might fix
> the problem.
>

Okay. 2.2.38 would not boot into a ramdisk so I couldn't use it.
I will get 2.3.39 today and see is it's fixed.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson

Penguin : Linux version 2.3.36 on an i686 machine (400.59 BogoMips).

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