From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932172AbZHYVvH (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:51:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754460AbZHYVvG (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:51:06 -0400 Received: from smtp-out3.blueyonder.co.uk ([195.188.213.6]:33808 "EHLO smtp-out3.blueyonder.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754055AbZHYVvF (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:51:05 -0400 Message-ID: <4A944EAC.60609@blueyonder.co.uk> Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 21:50:52 +0100 From: Sid Boyce Reply-To: Sid Boyce Organization: blueyonder.co.uk User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-GB; rv:1.9.1.1) Gecko/20090715 SUSE/3.0b3-3.4 Thunderbird/3.0b3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: LKML Mailing List Subject: Floppy wait problem in 2.6.31-rc7 and -rc7-git Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Occurs if floppy is enabled in the BIOS but is absent and also one report that it happens if there is no floppy in the drive. Looks like a regression as I can remember this happening going way back. # dmesg|grep fd0 Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 Buffer I/O error on device fd0, logical block 0 end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 Buffer I/O error on device fd0, logical block 0 end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 Buffer I/O error on device fd0, logical block 0 Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Specialist, Cricket Coach Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks