floppy in 2.4.17

floppy in 2.4.17

[J.A. Magallon]

Hi.

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 -t ext2 /dev/fd0 just hangs forever.

mkfs -v -t ext2 /dev/fd0 gives:

mke2fs 1.26 (3-Feb-2002)
mkfs.ext2: bad blocks count - /dev/fd0

Hardware:

Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
ide-floppy driver 0.97.sv

???

TIA

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Linux werewolf 2.4.17 #2 SMP Sat Feb 23 15:08:17 CET 2002 i686

Re: floppy in 2.4.17

[Mr. James W. Laferriere]

	Hello J.A. , Nice name .  I have verified that the floppy drive
	under 2.4.18-pre3 is in the same shape . Hth ,  JimL

# fdformat /dev/fd0u1440		,  Hmmm ,  Move little tab .
/dev/fd0u1440: Read-only file system
# fdformat /dev/fd0u1440		,  Hmmm ......
/dev/fd0u1440: Read-only file system
# tar -ztvf /dev/fd0			,  Hmmm ,  J.A.'s right .
(hang ..wait several minutes..)^C
tar (grandchild): Read error on /dev/fd0: Input/output error
tar (grandchild): At beginning of tape, quitting now
tar (grandchild): Error is not recoverable: exiting now

gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors


On Sat, 23 Feb 2002, J.A. Magallon wrote:

> Hi.
>
> 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 -t ext2 /dev/fd0 just hangs forever.
>
> mkfs -v -t ext2 /dev/fd0 gives:
>
> mke2fs 1.26 (3-Feb-2002)
> mkfs.ext2: bad blocks count - /dev/fd0
>
> Hardware:
>
> Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
> FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
> ide-floppy driver 0.97.sv
>
> ???
>
> TIA
>
> --
> J.A. Magallon                           #  Let the source be with you...
> mailto:jamagallon@able.es
> Mandrake Linux release 8.2 (Cooker) for i586
> Linux werewolf 2.4.17 #2 SMP Sat Feb 23 15:08:17 CET 2002 i686

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Re: floppy in 2.4.17

[Mr. James W. Laferriere]

	Hello All ,  More info ...  Hth ,  JimL

On Sat, 23 Feb 2002, Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote:
> 	Hello J.A. , Nice name .  I have verified that the floppy drive
> 	under 2.4.18-pre3 is in the same shape . Hth ,  JimL

> # fdformat /dev/fd0u1440		,  Hmmm ,  Move little tab .
> /dev/fd0u1440: Read-only file system
> # fdformat /dev/fd0u1440		,  Hmmm ......
> /dev/fd0u1440: Read-only file system
> # tar -ztvf /dev/fd0			,  Hmmm ,  J.A.'s right .
> (hang ..wait several minutes..)^C
> tar (grandchild): Read error on /dev/fd0: Input/output error
> tar (grandchild): At beginning of tape, quitting now
> tar (grandchild): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
>
> gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file
> tar: Child returned status 1
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

VFS: Disk change detected on device fd(2,28)
VFS: Disk change detected on device fd(2,28)
VFS: Disk change detected on device fd(2,28)
VFS: Disk change detected on device fd(2,28)
VFS: Disk change detected on device fd(2,0)
end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0
end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0
end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 2
end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 4
end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 6


> On Sat, 23 Feb 2002, J.A. Magallon wrote:
>
> > Hi.
> >
> > 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 -t ext2 /dev/fd0 just hangs forever.
> >
> > mkfs -v -t ext2 /dev/fd0 gives:
> >
> > mke2fs 1.26 (3-Feb-2002)
> > mkfs.ext2: bad blocks count - /dev/fd0
> >
> > Hardware:
> >
> > Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
> > FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
> > ide-floppy driver 0.97.sv
> >
> > ???
> >
> > TIA

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Re: floppy in 2.4.17

[Pierre Rousselet]

Have you tried booting with "pnpbios=no-res" ?


Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote:
> 	Hello All ,  More info ...  Hth ,  JimL
> 
> On Sat, 23 Feb 2002, Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote:
> 
>>	Hello J.A. , Nice name .  I have verified that the floppy drive
>>	under 2.4.18-pre3 is in the same shape . Hth ,  JimL
>>
> 
>># fdformat /dev/fd0u1440		,  Hmmm ,  Move little tab .
>>/dev/fd0u1440: Read-only file system
>># fdformat /dev/fd0u1440		,  Hmmm ......
>>/dev/fd0u1440: Read-only file system
>># tar -ztvf /dev/fd0			,  Hmmm ,  J.A.'s right .
>>(hang ..wait several minutes..)^C
>>tar (grandchild): Read error on /dev/fd0: Input/output error
>>tar (grandchild): At beginning of tape, quitting now
>>tar (grandchild): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
>>
>>gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file
>>tar: Child returned status 1
>>tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
>>
> 
> VFS: Disk change detected on device fd(2,28)
> VFS: Disk change detected on device fd(2,28)
> VFS: Disk change detected on device fd(2,28)
> VFS: Disk change detected on device fd(2,28)
> VFS: Disk change detected on device fd(2,0)
> end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0
> end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0
> end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 2
> end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 4
> end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 6
> 
> 
> 
>>On Sat, 23 Feb 2002, J.A. Magallon wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Hi.
>>>
>>>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 -t ext2 /dev/fd0 just hangs forever.
>>>
>>>mkfs -v -t ext2 /dev/fd0 gives:
>>>
>>>mke2fs 1.26 (3-Feb-2002)
>>>mkfs.ext2: bad blocks count - /dev/fd0
>>>
>>>Hardware:
>>>
>>>Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
>>>FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
>>>ide-floppy driver 0.97.sv
>>>
>>>???
>>>
>>>TIA
>>>




Pierre
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Re: floppy in 2.4.17

[Mr. James W. Laferriere]

	Hello Pierre ,  pnp is completely disabled in my kernel .
		Hth ,  JimL

# grep -i pnp /usr/src/linux/.config

# CONFIG_PNP is not set
# CONFIG_ISAPNP is not set
# CONFIG_IP_PNP is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ISAPNP is not set


On Sat, 23 Feb 2002, Pierre Rousselet wrote:

> Have you tried booting with "pnpbios=no-res" ?
>
>
> Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote:
> > 	Hello All ,  More info ...  Hth ,  JimL
> >
> > On Sat, 23 Feb 2002, Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote:
> >
> >>	Hello J.A. , Nice name .  I have verified that the floppy drive
> >>	under 2.4.18-pre3 is in the same shape . Hth ,  JimL
> >>
> >
> >># fdformat /dev/fd0u1440		,  Hmmm ,  Move little tab .
> >>/dev/fd0u1440: Read-only file system
> >># fdformat /dev/fd0u1440		,  Hmmm ......
> >>/dev/fd0u1440: Read-only file system
> >># tar -ztvf /dev/fd0			,  Hmmm ,  J.A.'s right .
> >>(hang ..wait several minutes..)^C
> >>tar (grandchild): Read error on /dev/fd0: Input/output error
> >>tar (grandchild): At beginning of tape, quitting now
> >>tar (grandchild): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
> >>
> >>gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file
> >>tar: Child returned status 1
> >>tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
> >>
> >
> > VFS: Disk change detected on device fd(2,28)
> > VFS: Disk change detected on device fd(2,28)
> > VFS: Disk change detected on device fd(2,28)
> > VFS: Disk change detected on device fd(2,28)
> > VFS: Disk change detected on device fd(2,0)
> > end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0
> > end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0
> > end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 2
> > end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 4
> > end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 6
> >
> >
> >
> >>On Sat, 23 Feb 2002, J.A. Magallon wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>Hi.
> >>>
> >>>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 -t ext2 /dev/fd0 just hangs forever.
> >>>
> >>>mkfs -v -t ext2 /dev/fd0 gives:
> >>>
> >>>mke2fs 1.26 (3-Feb-2002)
> >>>mkfs.ext2: bad blocks count - /dev/fd0
> >>>
> >>>Hardware:
> >>>
> >>>Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
> >>>FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
> >>>ide-floppy driver 0.97.sv
> >>>
> >>>???
> >>>
> >>>TIA
> >>>
>
>
>
>
> Pierre
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>   Pierre Rousselet <pierre.rousselet@wanadoo.fr>
> ------------------------------------------------
>

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Re: floppy in 2.4.17

[Heinz Diehl]

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.

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# Heinz Diehl, 68259 Mannheim, Germany

Re: floppy in 2.4.17

[Chris Sykes]

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.

... Hmm
Do you happen to have the NVidia kernel module loaded when the hangs occur?
More specifically, is the module being used?  From limited (fd is too
sloooowwww) I can dd, fdformat etc just fine under console, with or without
NVidia module loaded.  If I startx during fdformat then machine will lock
hard.  I have to pull the power cord for a few seconds to get the box
working again.

FYI:
sh-2.05# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 0305 (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 8305
00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super] (rev 22)
00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586 IDE [Apollo] (rev
10)
00:07.4 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI]
(rev 30)
00:09.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA 1064SG
[Mystique] (rev 03)
00:0b.0 Multimedia audio controller: Platform Technologies, Inc. AGOGO
sound chip (aka ESS Maestro 1) (rev 10)
00:0f.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 (rev 02)
00:0f.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV15 (Geforce2 GTS)
(rev a3)

Xfree86 4.2.0
NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-1251 (I know it's old but it's the only release that 
will give me GL with xinerama enabled)

-- 
Chris Sykes

Re: floppy in 2.4.17

[Mike Fedyk]

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

Re: floppy in 2.4.17

[Heinz Diehl]

On Sat Feb 23 2002, Mike Fedyk wrote:

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

chiara:~ # mke2fs -t ext2 /dev/fd0
mke2fs 1.24, 30-Aug-2001 for EXT2 FS Lö,
mke2fs: bad blocks count - /dev/fd0

chiara:~ # uname -a
Linux chiara 2.4.18-rc2-ac1 #1 Sun Feb 24 14:20:33 CET 2002 i586 unknown
	
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# Heinz Diehl, 68259 Mannheim, Germany

Re: floppy in 2.4.17

[Pierre Rousselet]

Heinz Diehl wrote:
> On Sat Feb 23 2002, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> 
> 
>>So, can you guys stress the -ac patch to see if it's fixed there?
>>
> 
> chiara:~ # mke2fs -t ext2 /dev/fd0

# mke2fs /dev/fd0 might work better

> mke2fs 1.24, 30-Aug-2001 for EXT2 FS Lö,
> mke2fs: bad blocks count - /dev/fd0
> 
> chiara:~ # uname -a
> Linux chiara 2.4.18-rc2-ac1 #1 Sun Feb 24 14:20:33 CET 2002 i586 unknown
> 	
> 



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