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* [PATCH] hw/block/fdc: report a missing address mark on an empty drive
@ 2026-07-10 11:31 Christian Quante
  2026-07-14 12:42 ` Kevin Wolf
  2026-07-14 16:40 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] hw/block/fdc: do not claim a diskette that is not there Christian Quante
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Christian Quante @ 2026-07-10 11:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: qemu-devel
  Cc: John Snow, Kevin Wolf, Hanna Reitz, Fabiano Rosas, Laurent Vivier,
	Paolo Bonzini, qemu-block, Christian Quante

READ ID on a drive with no medium terminates normally and returns the
made-up sector ID left over from the "Pretend we are spinning" emulation.
The only error path is a data rate mismatch, and media_rate is assigned
solely by pick_geometry(); it is never reset when the medium is removed.
A guest that has just ejected a diskette is therefore told that one is
still present.

READ and WRITE have a related problem: fd_seek() returns 2 both for
"track/head out of range" and for "no medium", and fdctrl_start_transfer()
reports that as ST0 = ABNTERM with ST1 = 0x00.  Without ST1.MA the guest
cannot tell an absent diskette from a transient error.

Fail READ ID with ST0 = ABNTERM and ST1 = MA when the drive is empty, and
set ST1.MA in the fd_seek() case 2 path when no medium is present.  This
does not make guests detect the removal -- real hardware never completes
READ ID on an empty drive, because there are no index pulses, and OS/2 for
one relies on that timeout -- but it stops the controller from claiming a
diskette that is not there.

tests/qtest/fdc-test.c starts QEMU with "-device floppy,id=floppy0" and no
medium, so the drive is empty for the whole run, and test_read_id asserts a
normal termination with a fabricated cylinder 8 / head 1.  That contradicts
its neighbours test_no_media_on_start and test_media_change, which state
that DSKCHG signals an absent medium.  Insert a medium before READ ID and
eject it afterwards -- the rewritten test passes before and after this
change -- and add test_read_id_no_media to cover the empty drive.

Guests checked, reading and writing, with and without a medium: Linux
2.0.34 and 7.0, PC-DOS 7, IBM DOS 5.02, Windows for Workgroups 3.11 and
OS/2 2.11.  None changes behaviour.  No version of the Linux floppy driver
from 1.2.13 to master issues READ ID at all -- FD_READID is defined in the
uapi header for FDRAWCMD users and the driver never sends it -- so Linux
detects an empty drive by stepping the head and reading DSKCHG instead.

Buglink: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/3971
Signed-off-by: Christian Quante <christian@quante.one>
---
 hw/block/fdc.c         | 29 +++++++++++++++--
 tests/qtest/fdc-test.c | 73 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 2 files changed, 93 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/hw/block/fdc.c b/hw/block/fdc.c
index 2c1681b7d0..8895e39cb6 100644
--- a/hw/block/fdc.c
+++ b/hw/block/fdc.c
@@ -196,6 +196,12 @@ static void fd_init(FDrive *drv)
 
 #define NUM_SIDES(drv) ((drv)->flags & FDISK_DBL_SIDES ? 2 : 1)
 
+/* Is a diskette present in the drive? */
+static bool fd_media_present(FDrive *drv)
+{
+    return drv->blk != NULL && blk_is_inserted(drv->blk);
+}
+
 static int fd_sector_calc(uint8_t head, uint8_t track, uint8_t sect,
                           uint8_t last_sect, uint8_t num_sides)
 {
@@ -1476,8 +1482,15 @@ static void fdctrl_start_transfer(FDCtrl *fdctrl, int direction)
                                   NUM_SIDES(cur_drv)));
     switch (fd_seek(cur_drv, kh, kt, ks, fdctrl->config & FD_CONFIG_EIS)) {
     case 2:
-        /* sect too big */
-        fdctrl_stop_transfer(fdctrl, FD_SR0_ABNTERM, 0x00, 0x00);
+        /*
+         * Track/head out of range, or no medium at all.  Only the latter can
+         * be told apart by the guest, through ST1.MA: with no diskette in the
+         * drive there is no address mark to be found.  Guests that
+         * distinguish an absent medium from an unreadable one rely on this.
+         */
+        fdctrl_stop_transfer(fdctrl, FD_SR0_ABNTERM,
+                             fd_media_present(cur_drv) ? 0x00 : FD_SR1_MA,
+                             0x00);
         fdctrl->fifo[3] = kt;
         fdctrl->fifo[4] = kh;
         fdctrl->fifo[5] = ks;
@@ -2303,6 +2316,18 @@ static void fdctrl_result_timer(void *opaque)
     FDCtrl *fdctrl = opaque;
     FDrive *cur_drv = get_cur_drv(fdctrl);
 
+    /*
+     * An empty drive has no address marks to read.  Completing READ ID
+     * successfully, with the made-up sector ID left over from the "spinning"
+     * emulation below, tells the guest that a diskette is still present after
+     * it has been ejected.  The only error path left was a data rate mismatch,
+     * and media_rate is never reset when the medium is removed.
+     */
+    if (!fd_media_present(cur_drv)) {
+        FLOPPY_DPRINTF("read id on empty drive\n");
+        fdctrl_stop_transfer(fdctrl, FD_SR0_ABNTERM, FD_SR1_MA, 0x00);
+        return;
+    }
     /* Pretend we are spinning.
      * This is needed for Coherent, which uses READ ID to check for
      * sector interleaving.
diff --git a/tests/qtest/fdc-test.c b/tests/qtest/fdc-test.c
index 1b37a8a4d2..fa57a8b7cf 100644
--- a/tests/qtest/fdc-test.c
+++ b/tests/qtest/fdc-test.c
@@ -64,6 +64,12 @@ enum {
 
     DSKCHG  = 0x80,
 };
+enum {
+    ST0_IC_MASK  = 0xc0,    /* interrupt code */
+    ST0_IC_ABNTERM = 0x40,  /* abnormal termination */
+
+    ST1_MA       = 0x01,    /* missing address mark */
+};
 
 static char *test_image;
 
@@ -270,6 +276,21 @@ static void test_cmos(void)
     g_assert(cmos == 0x40 || cmos == 0x50);
 }
 
+static void media_insert(void)
+{
+    qtest_qmp_assert_success(global_qtest,
+                             "{'execute':'blockdev-change-medium', 'arguments':{"
+                             " 'id':'floppy0', 'filename': %s, 'format': 'raw' }}",
+                             test_image);
+}
+
+static void media_eject(void)
+{
+    qtest_qmp_assert_success(global_qtest,
+                             "{'execute':'eject', 'arguments':{"
+                             " 'id':'floppy0' }}");
+}
+
 static void test_no_media_on_start(void)
 {
     uint8_t dir;
@@ -301,10 +322,7 @@ static void test_media_insert(void)
 
     /* Insert media in drive. DSKCHK should not be reset until a step pulse
      * is sent. */
-    qtest_qmp_assert_success(global_qtest,
-                             "{'execute':'blockdev-change-medium', 'arguments':{"
-                             " 'id':'floppy0', 'filename': %s, 'format': 'raw' }}",
-                             test_image);
+    media_insert();
 
     dir = inb(FLOPPY_BASE + reg_dir);
     assert_bit_set(dir, DSKCHG);
@@ -333,9 +351,7 @@ static void test_media_change(void)
 
     /* Eject the floppy and check that DSKCHG is set. Reading it out doesn't
      * reset the bit. */
-    qtest_qmp_assert_success(global_qtest,
-                             "{'execute':'eject', 'arguments':{"
-                             " 'id':'floppy0' }}");
+    media_eject();
 
     dir = inb(FLOPPY_BASE + reg_dir);
     assert_bit_set(dir, DSKCHG);
@@ -414,6 +430,12 @@ static void test_read_id(void)
     uint8_t st0;
     uint8_t msr;
 
+    /*
+     * READ ID reads the address mark of the sector currently under the head,
+     * so it needs a medium.  The preceding tests left the drive empty.
+     */
+    media_insert();
+
     /* Seek to track 0 and check with READ ID */
     send_seek(0);
 
@@ -491,6 +513,42 @@ static void test_read_id(void)
     g_assert_cmpint(cyl, ==, 8);
     g_assert_cmpint(head, ==, 1);
     g_assert_cmpint(st0, ==, head << 2);
+
+    /* Leave the drive as the following tests expect to find it. */
+    media_eject();
+}
+
+/*
+ * An empty drive spins no diskette, so READ ID finds no address mark and must
+ * terminate abnormally.  Reporting success (with a made-up sector ID) would
+ * tell the guest that a medium is still present after it has been ejected.
+ */
+static void test_read_id_no_media(void)
+{
+    uint8_t drive = 0;
+    uint8_t head = 0;
+    uint8_t st0, st1;
+
+    floppy_send(CMD_READ_ID);
+    g_assert(!get_irq(FLOPPY_IRQ));
+    floppy_send(head << 2 | drive);
+
+    while (!get_irq(FLOPPY_IRQ)) {
+        clock_step(1000000000LL / 50);
+    }
+
+    st0 = floppy_recv();
+    st1 = floppy_recv();
+    floppy_recv();                  /* ST2 */
+    floppy_recv();                  /* cylinder */
+    floppy_recv();                  /* head */
+    floppy_recv();                  /* sector */
+    g_assert(get_irq(FLOPPY_IRQ));
+    floppy_recv();                  /* sector size */
+    g_assert(!get_irq(FLOPPY_IRQ));
+
+    g_assert_cmpint(st0 & ST0_IC_MASK, ==, ST0_IC_ABNTERM);
+    g_assert_cmpint(st1 & ST1_MA, ==, ST1_MA);
 }
 
 static void test_read_no_dma_1(void)
@@ -625,6 +683,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
     qtest_add_func("/fdc/sense_interrupt", test_sense_interrupt);
     qtest_add_func("/fdc/relative_seek", test_relative_seek);
     qtest_add_func("/fdc/read_id", test_read_id);
+    qtest_add_func("/fdc/read_id_no_media", test_read_id_no_media);
     qtest_add_func("/fdc/verify", test_verify);
     qtest_add_func("/fdc/media_insert", test_media_insert);
     qtest_add_func("/fdc/read_no_dma_1", test_read_no_dma_1);
-- 
2.53.0



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