wolfgang@wsrcc.com (Wolfgang Rupprecht) writes:
> Under current, it does give some highly reassuring signs of activity,
> but doesn't quite work all the way.

Actually, that was with a couple of day old current.  Using today's
current I can mount it "ro" and read it just fine.  Neat!

        mount -t msdos -r /dev/wd1e /mnt 

Mounting it "rw" gives some soft (correctable) errors/timeouts.
Perhaps this is some file access-time being updated?

-wolfgang
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