From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>,
Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>,
Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] block driver updates for 2.6.38
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 18:01:31 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110119180131.088a7994@nehalam> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimZWMJQfc6E-ke+SbpaTeG9UKA--g=qFQa+11aW@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 17:03:21 -0800
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 4:11 PM, Stephen Hemminger
> <shemminger@vyatta.com> wrote:
> >
> > It appears to be a different problem (not HPET MSI). Not sure what
> > is causing it, but even 2.6.35 can't format a floppy without error.
>
> Do you actually know that the hardware is good (ie does _any_ version
> of Linux work)?
>
> Floppy disks and drives have not been known for their robustness, and
> most of them tend to be pretty old by now.
>
> Dang, I think I should just try to go to Fry's and see if I can find a
> floppy drive somewhere. Not that I even know if my motherboards
> necessarily even have the _pins_ to connect it any more.
I could not find a working floppy in 4 machines (even Windows).
There is always USB floppy but it is not the same.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-20 2:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-13 13:53 [GIT PULL] block driver updates for 2.6.38 Jens Axboe
2011-01-13 19:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-01-13 19:25 ` Jens Axboe
2011-01-13 19:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-01-13 21:43 ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-01-13 22:19 ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-01-14 0:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-01-14 0:11 ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-01-14 1:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-01-14 2:31 ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-01-14 4:53 ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-01-14 6:42 ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-01-14 15:55 ` Martin Knoblauch
2011-01-20 2:01 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
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