From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.1-0.1.9 i586) Adaptec 2940 controler. Zip 100, Orb drive, Toshiba DVD-RAM. Zip and Orb drives will not mount disk unless disk in drive to begin with. You cannot eject disk and mount new disk. Disks are fromated in VFAT. Messages about superblock, etc. Coping files to Orb drive result in chmod error even when file is copied correctly. DVD-Ram is seen as CDROM only. The code to see DVD-RAM was to have been put into 2.4.x kernel. Cannot mount or format DVD-RAM disks to use as storage. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.boot system without disk in scsi orb or zip drive 2.insert disk and attempt mount 3.boot system with disk in zip or orb drive. 4. eject disk and try to mount a new disk. 5. DVD-RAM - Try to access DVD-RAM cartrage as sdxx and fdisk. Actual Results: Boot with out disk -- not able to mount. error about superblock, Eject and put new disk in .. same error message DVD-RAM -- no such device Expected Results: disks should have been mounted and accessable Changing the Dos compatablity flag allows new disk to be mounted, but system treats it as Large floppy with extreamly slow transfer rates. This does not occur with same disks using OS/2 or Winblos 98.
Could you please retry using the 2.4.2-0.1.19 kernel in rawhide and see if the problem still exists?
Reported fixed by other bug reporters, marking as fixed in rawhide. Please re-open if the rawhide kernel does not fix this bug for you.