* Floppies under 2.5.
@ 2002-08-13 13:07 Ivan Gyurdiev
2002-08-16 6:09 ` A Guy Called Tyketto
2002-08-16 12:02 ` Thunder from the hill
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From: Ivan Gyurdiev @ 2002-08-13 13:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: LKML
My floppy refuses to mount under 2.5.31.
The first attempt leads to segmentation fault.
The second attempt leads to an unkillable
(killall -9 mount as root has no effect) process which freezes on the
open call:
stat64("/dev/fd0", {st_mode=S_IFBLK|0660, st_rdev=makedev(2, 0), ...}) = 0
open("/dev/fd0", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE
========================
Mounting floppies works fine under 2.4.
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* Re: Floppies under 2.5.
2002-08-13 13:07 Floppies under 2.5 Ivan Gyurdiev
@ 2002-08-16 6:09 ` A Guy Called Tyketto
2002-08-16 12:02 ` Thunder from the hill
1 sibling, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: A Guy Called Tyketto @ 2002-08-16 6:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Ivan Gyurdiev; +Cc: linux-kernel
On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 09:07:23AM -0400, Ivan Gyurdiev wrote:
> My floppy refuses to mount under 2.5.31.
> The first attempt leads to segmentation fault.
> The second attempt leads to an unkillable
> (killall -9 mount as root has no effect) process which freezes on the
> open call:
>
> stat64("/dev/fd0", {st_mode=S_IFBLK|0660, st_rdev=makedev(2, 0), ...}) = 0
> open("/dev/fd0", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE
> ========================
>
> Mounting floppies works fine under 2.4.
Of course it works in 2.4. that's the stable series! ;)
Seriously, the floppy driver has been broken since 2.5.8, and will
probably stay that way until someone comes along and fixes it. I believe it's
being ported over to the new API, but I'm sure Dave or the others will get
more into that. I last had the floppy working with 2.5.7. If you're expecting
to use the floppy driver to mount any sort of filesystem, expect either
severe corruption, kernel freezing as you've reported, oops, or any other
thing that has or hasn't been reported, excluding normal ops. Use 2.4 for
mounting floppies.
BL.
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* Re: Floppies under 2.5.
2002-08-13 13:07 Floppies under 2.5 Ivan Gyurdiev
2002-08-16 6:09 ` A Guy Called Tyketto
@ 2002-08-16 12:02 ` Thunder from the hill
2002-08-16 12:14 ` Dave Jones
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From: Thunder from the hill @ 2002-08-16 12:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Ivan Gyurdiev; +Cc: LKML
Hi,
On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, Ivan Gyurdiev wrote:
> My floppy refuses to mount under 2.5.31.
Could someone please put it on the FAQ?
Thunder
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* Re: Floppies under 2.5.
2002-08-16 12:02 ` Thunder from the hill
@ 2002-08-16 12:14 ` Dave Jones
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From: Dave Jones @ 2002-08-16 12:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Thunder from the hill; +Cc: Ivan Gyurdiev, LKML
On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 06:02:49AM -0600, Thunder from the hill wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, Ivan Gyurdiev wrote:
> > My floppy refuses to mount under 2.5.31.
> Could someone please put it on the FAQ?
It's been documented on the problem page I maintained.
It's on the one maintained by Thomas.
It's mentioned at least a dozen times in the last weeks in
the l-k archives.
Unfortunatly, people find it easier to mail the same questions to
l-k over and over instead of hitting google or the likes.
Dave
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