From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <199911202140.WAA00815@appel.flower> To: "David A. Gatwood" cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org, dorland@lords.com, hollis+@andrew.cmu.edu Subject: Re: Floppy problems In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 20 Nov 1999 10:52:37 PST." Date: Sat, 20 Nov 1999 22:40:58 +0100 From: Jan Nieuwenhuizen Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On Saturday, 20 November 1999, "David A. Gatwood" writes: > > > It is very weird. Again, other G3 users, does your floppy drive work? > > > > No, mine doesn't work either. I've reported and asked several times here, > > but never got replies (other than: use gdb.. duh) > > Something to check: look inside and see what the drive used is. As far as > I know, it should be either the standard Panasonic or the mostly standard > Mitsubishi, but if it's a different drive, there could be some issues. Yes, it's a Mitsubishi. > And again, you should try MkLinux and see if it can handle the drive so > that if so, the LinuxPPC coders can use that as a working reference to see > what's wrong in the drivers. (Of course, if MkLinux doesn't work, there's > probably a hardware bug, since we use Copland's floppy driver.) Ok, I checked: it works fine under Mklinux. (must address as /dev/fd0H1440, because fd0 is 'no such device'. Also, X didn't work anymore, but these maybe mk-newbe problems.) On another unrelated note: while I was at it I tried to mount a home-brew CD-ROM under Mklinux. It failed gracefully, printing these errors: block_read_reply: rdev 16:00 rsector 0x40 size 0x400 err=0x9c4=2500 "unknown error code" isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev 16:00 iso_blknum 16 block 32 block_ioctl(dev=16:00, cmd=0x20001260) not implemented Trying to mount this particular CD-ROM under linuxppc-Q3's 2.2.6 or 2.3.23 freezes the kernel (not pingable, nothing in logs). Jan. -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter http://www.xs4all.nl/~jantien/ | http://www.lilypond.org/ ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/