From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel•crashing.org>
To: <hemphill@drea•dnd.ca>
Cc: <linuxppc-dev@lists•linuxppc.org>,
<yellowdog-general@lists•yellowdoglinux.com>
Subject: Re: Ti Powerbooks and YDL 2.1 - Problems
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 11:06:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011106100656.20008@smtp.adsl.oleane.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3BE74DCD.3070407@drea.dnd.ca>
>Well I've just spent an interesting two days documenting a problem with
>the Ti Powerbooks and the 2.4 series kernels. I have access to two
>500Mhz Ti's with the Matshita DVD-ROM SR-8187 drives. When I tried to
>follow Dan Burcaw's experimental instructions on doing a yup update of
>YDL2.0 to 2.1 I ran into the problem that a mount of any CD returned the
>error message "wrong media type" (I hadn't used the CD at all since
>moving to the 2.4 series kernels). After trying all the various ways of
>mounting an ISO CD I decided to try the 2.2 series kernels (which of
>course are on the 2.0 CD - catch 22). After downloading the old kernel
>RPM's and installing them I was able to mount the CD with no problem and
>actually completed the yup update to 2.1. However with the new 2.4.10
>kernel in place I'm back to the error message if I try and mount the CD
>I used to do the update. I've tried the latest kernels from Benh, and
>the bk tree and they all report the same error. It looks like the drive
>is reporting that it doesn't have a DVD inserted, and fails to allow for
>the fact that CDROMS are valid. As a side note I've also observed this
>error message on my G4 733 Tower with the superdrive.
This problem have been introduced by a change in the generic kernel
code that no longer does the necessary block size translation to mount
the 512 bytes block HFS filesystem from a 2048 bytes block CDROM device.
You have to mount it via the loopback device.
Ben.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-11-06 10:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-11-06 2:41 Ti Powerbooks and YDL 2.1 - Problems Gavin Hemphill
2001-11-06 0:37 ` Martin Costabel
2001-11-06 15:16 ` Michael Schmitz
2001-11-06 10:06 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
[not found] <3BE7D31A.6040902@drea.dnd.ca>
[not found] ` <20011106124602.29928@smtp.adsl.oleane.com>
2001-11-06 14:43 ` Gavin Hemphill
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