From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 17 Jan 2001 06:05:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 17 Jan 2001 06:05:10 -0500 Received: from mailout02.sul.t-online.com ([194.25.134.17]:53777 "EHLO mailout02.sul.t-online.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 17 Jan 2001 06:04:59 -0500 Message-ID: <3A657C56.E0EFFF4D@t-online.de> Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 12:04:54 +0100 From: Jeffrey.Rose@t-online.de (Jeffrey Rose) Organization: http://ChristForge.SourceForge.net/ X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.0 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christian Gennerat , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.4.0 config breaks /dev/fd0* major/minor ? *not* Fixed In-Reply-To: <3A656749.ACF3F01A@t-online.de> <3A6567CF.E10FDEBD@mandrakesoft.com> <3A657537.F4A64F78@vz.cit.alcatel.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Christian Gennerat wrote: > > Jeff Garzik a écrit : > > > Jeffrey Rose wrote: > > > I get a wrong major/minor reported when attempting > > > to mount /dev/fd0 ... > > > > Sounds like it can't find the floppy driver, for whatever reason... > > > > I have seen this message, new with 2.4.0-2mdk > (before I have 2.4.0-0.15mdk) > but only on one PC. > I have 2 PC, with same hardware, same PCMCIA config > > The first have mandrake 7.2 Odissey, and the modules > floppy and floppy_cs are loaded, and /mnt/floppy is mounted > modutils-2.4.1-1mdk > > The second have mandrake 7.1 Helium, and the modules > fail during init. and I have this message: > 'mount: /dev/fd0 has wrong major or minor number' > modutils-2.3.21-2mdk (the last rpm-3) > > I have copied the files of modutils-2.4.1-1mdk, > and created 2 sym.links: > # ls -l /lib/modules/2.4.0-2mdk/pcmcia/ > total 0 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 jan 10 22:09 ds.o -> ../kernel/drivers/pcmcia/ds.o > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 jan 17 11:30 floppy.o -> ../kernel/drivers/block/floppy.o > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 35 jan 17 11:30 floppy_cs.o -> ../kernel/drivers/block/floppy_cs.o > and now, it works! I am not using pcmcia, as this is a desktop with ISDN (Fritz! PCI ISDN card), but I only get more verbose error messages with the /dev/fd0CompaQ : #> mount /dev/fd0CompaQ /mnt/floppy #> floppy0: sector not found: track 0, head 0, sector 3, size 2 #> floppy0: sector not found: track 0, head 0, sector 3, size 2 #> end_request: I/O error, dev 02:04 (floppy), sector 2 #> /dev/fd0CompaQ: Input/output error #> mount: /dev/fd0CompaQ has wrong major or minor number I will attempt a recompile with floppy as a module (as RH 2.2.16-22 did ... /lib/modules/2.2.16-22/block/ide-floppy.o), and see if 'ide-floppy.o' and the new 2.4.1 modutils will help resolve this problem (unless my sad Compaq Presario 5000 BIOS IRQ setup is to blame :-( Cheers, Jeff -- KEYSERVER=wwwkeys.de.pgp.net SEARCH STRING=Jeffrey Rose KEYID=6AD04244 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/