From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756705AbXLGSGu (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Dec 2007 13:06:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754044AbXLGSGl (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Dec 2007 13:06:41 -0500 Received: from mail.tmr.com ([64.65.253.246]:44476 "EHLO gaimboi.tmr.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753811AbXLGSGk (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Dec 2007 13:06:40 -0500 Message-ID: <47598F94.6090305@tmr.com> Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2007 13:23:16 -0500 From: Bill Davidsen Organization: TMR Associates Inc, Schenectady NY User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.8) Gecko/20061105 SeaMonkey/1.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Justin Piszcz CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, apiszcz@solarrain.com Subject: Re: 2.6.23.9: x86_64: floppy not working: p35 chipset References: <47598CAD.40100@tmr.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Justin Piszcz wrote: > > > On Fri, 7 Dec 2007, Bill Davidsen wrote: > >> Justin Piszcz wrote: >>> Trying to format a floppy (2-3 of them) on a GA-P35-DS4 2.0 with a >>> regular Sony floppy on Debian x86_64 with kernel 2.6.23.9: >>> >>> # fdformat /dev/fd0 >>> Could not determine current format type: No such device >>> # mformat a: >>> mformat: Could not get geometry of device (No such device) >>> # >>> >>> # cat /proc/interrupts |grep floppy >>> 6: 38 37 39 41 IO-APIC-edge >>> floppy >>> >>> # dmesg|grep -A1 fd0 >>> [ 52.689487] Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M >>> [ 52.704661] FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 >>> >>> During the 'attempted format' >>> >> >>> >>> I've tried a few different floppies, the result is the same. The >>> system is 64-bit only, no 32-bit emulation is enabled using a strict >>> 64-bit-only userland. Has anyone else gotten their floppy drive to >>> work under 64-bit? >>> >>> Is this just a case of a DOA floppy drive or is something else wrong? >>> >> Maybe booting from a 32 bit live CD would help determine that. It >> certainly was seen at boot time. Didn't get hooked to some SCSI >> device name by udev, did it? >> >> >> -- >> Bill Davidsen >> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from >> the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot >> > > Retried with some other floppies and later tried the original, > everything seems to be working now, must have been a bad floppy/some > transient issue. Great! I did test that FC8 with a Fedora kernel will see and use the floppy. Even found a floppy to use. Now I have to figure out why I have a floppy with a gzipped ext2 filesystem on it. :-( Doesn't appear to be bootable, I thought it might be SYSLINUX for an old system which couldn't boot from CD or USB, but that doesn't seem to be the case. Anyway, glad the problem went away. -- Bill Davidsen "Woe unto the statesman who makes war without a reason that will still be valid when the war is over..." Otto von Bismark