Ti Powerbooks and YDL 2.1 - Problems

[Michael Schmitz]

> > 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).
>
> Did you try to mount it via the loop device:
>
>  mount -o loop -t hfs /dev/cdrom /mnt/wherever
>
> If this works, then you hit a kernel bug that was discussed 2 weeks ago
> on linuxppc-dev

This isn't a bug but a new feature :-) At least it's part of a new feature
(reblocking for filesystems where hardware blocksize doesn't match
filesystem blocksize via loopback) introduced in recent 2.4 kernels
(which-shoud-really-be-renamed-2.5 (tm)).

	Michael


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