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From: Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>
To: Chris Sykes <chris@sykes.uklinux.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: floppy in 2.4.17
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 19:05:28 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020224030528.GQ20060@matchmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020223160544.A1905@werewolf.able.es> <20020223184916.GA1518@chiara.cavy.de> <20020223220007.A461@cooper>
In-Reply-To: <20020223220007.A461@cooper>

On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 10:00:07PM +0000, Chris Sykes wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 07:49:16PM +0100, Heinz Diehl wrote:
> > On Sat Feb 23 2002, J.A. Magallon wrote:
> > 
> > > I am getting problems with floppy drive in 2.4.17.
> > > All started with floppy not working in 18-rc4, went back to 17
> > > and still does not work. Just plain 2.4.17, no patching.
> >  
> > > mkfs -v -t ext2 /dev/fd0 gives:
> >  
> > > mke2fs 1.26 (3-Feb-2002)
> > > mkfs.ext2: bad blocks count - /dev/fd0
> > 
> > Exactly the same thing here.
> 
> Yet another meetoo.
> 
> I also experience hard lockups when writing to the floppy drive (fdformat,
> dd etc.) , nothing in my logs though.
> 

I've seen this a couple times also, but not on the -ac series recently.

I notice this in 2.4.18-pre9-ac1:
o       Fix floppy reservation ranges                   (Anton Altaparmakov)  

So, can you guys stress the -ac patch to see if it's fixed there?

Mike











  reply	other threads:[~2002-02-24  3:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-02-23 15:05 floppy in 2.4.17 J.A. Magallon
2002-02-23 15:59 ` Mr. James W. Laferriere
2002-02-23 16:04   ` Mr. James W. Laferriere
2002-02-23 17:10     ` Pierre Rousselet
2002-02-24  2:09       ` Mr. James W. Laferriere
2002-02-23 18:49 ` Heinz Diehl
2002-02-23 22:00   ` Chris Sykes
2002-02-24  3:05     ` Mike Fedyk [this message]
2002-02-24 13:46       ` Heinz Diehl
2002-02-24 20:00         ` Pierre Rousselet

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