* Matthew Dharm <mdharm-kernel@one-eyed-alien.net> [040105 20:02]:

>It looks like your device is choking over the ALLOW_MEDIUM_REMOVAL command
>-- I've never seen a device broken in this particular way before.

>If you edit drivers/scsi/sd.c to remove the sending of that command (it's
>normally used to lock the media-eject button on devices that support it),
>we should be able to test this theory.  If this is the case, then we may
>need to modify the SCSI layer to only send that command if the RMB bit is
>set.

That did it, with this fix I have no problems. fdisk still reports
mangled partitions, parted OTOH reports one partition filling the whole
device. I can mount either /dev/sda or /dev/sda4 and get the same
correct results.

Thanks a lot :) You've made me happy for the coming days ;)
Until your message I was messing around with unusual_devs.h to no
avail...


-- 
Javier Marcet <javier@marcet.info>