Re: Unable to format or use floppies since 2.6.28

ael
2009-12-12T09:33:37Z

Mark Hounschell wrote:
> I have many boxes. They all do the same thing. Running different versions of SuSE, 10.3-11.2. Any kernel at or above 2.6.28 fails to fdformat a floppy. These same machines, using the same floppies and drives, running kernels older than 2.6.28 work just fine. I googled and found other such reports but no solution. I know better than to just assume it's a kernel bug but it sure looks like it could be so I'm inquiring about it here.
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> # fdformat /dev/fd0u1440
> Double-sided, 80 tracks, 18 sec/track. Total capacity 1440 kB.
> Formatting ... done
> Verifying ... Problem reading cylinder 1, expected 18432, read 2048

Similar problems on debian testing: see
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=548434

However, fdformat is ok on Gentoo under 2.6.31 and also on Ubuntu
2.6.32-rc6, so it seems it is not just the kernel version in any
simplistic way.

A git-bisect seems the obvious next step?

ael