Bug#24054: can't install debian on a Zip disk
On Fri, Jul 17, 1998 at 09:26:38AM +0200, Dinh-Tuan.Pham@imag.fr wrote:
> > errno = 5 is EIO, Input/Output error. Your Zip disk shouldn't return an
> > error when sending it a valid request. I suspect it may be a hardware
> > problem.
>
> Well, I have used it over 6 months now and never notice any hardware
> problem. Also, the redhat distribution has no qualm about installing
> on it (only that it is somewhat too big for the Zip). How do you
> explain that ?
Enrique:
> It's an orthogonal issue. The drive may be working fine, as the request I
> was talking about is not used in normal operation. As it seems some other
> devices show the same behaviour, I'm adding code to the CD-ROM detection
> function to accept EIO as a valid answer from a non-CD-ROM device.
May I assume that this bug is fixed now? May I close the bug
report then?
Regards,
Joey
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