I have a zip disk which I attempted to mount using the following fstab
entry:
/dev/sda4 /zip vfat noauto,nodev,nosuid,user
This caused a spew of "bread failed" errors, and the mount process ended
up blocked in "wait_on_buffer". I thought at first that Zip disk had
gone to silicon heaven.
After rebooting, I had a look at the kernel messages, and was _amazed_ to
see the following:
SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes.
Sectors= 196608 [96 MB] [0.1 GB]
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4
floppy0: disk absent or changed during operation
end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 1
bread in fat_access failed
[...]
There are two questions. Firstly, why did the mount process get stuck
in the kernel, and secondly (and more importantly) what was it doing
accessing "/dev/fd0"?
The Zip is a bit suspect, as when I attempted to transfer stuff from
a Windows machine, it reported the size as a few Mb, and had to be
formatted. I don't know if the media is going bad, but I have just dd'd
the contents off without problems.
If I try and look at the partition table, "cfdisk" refuses, and "fdisk"
complains bitterly. If I try and "dd if=/dev/sda4" then this just hangs,
again in "wait_on_buffer".
Regardless of bad media and corrupt partition tables, I don't see why
the kernel is accessing a completely unrelated device.
I'll leave the zip disk as it is, so if needed I can run any tests to
try and isolate the problem.
Details; Kernel 2.2.16; Debian 2.2; Zip+ 100 accessed through aha152x.
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