2.6.23.9: x86_64: floppy not working: p35 chipset

2.6.23.9: x86_64: floppy not working: p35 chipset

[Justin Piszcz]

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'

[34324.175770] floppy0: probe failed...
[34324.575342] floppy0: probe failed...
[34324.974733] floppy0: probe failed...
[34325.374302] floppy0: probe failed...
[34325.773746] floppy0: probe failed...
[34326.173312] floppy0: probe failed...
[34326.572734] floppy0: probe failed...
[34326.972241] floppy0: probe failed...
[34327.371739] floppy0: probe failed...
[34327.771344] floppy0: probe failed...
[34328.170727] floppy0: probe failed...
[34328.570283] floppy0: probe failed...
[34328.969717] floppy0: probe failed...
[34329.369275] floppy0: probe failed...
[34329.768691] floppy0: probe failed...
[34330.168197] floppy0: probe failed...
[34330.168257] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0

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?

Justin.

Re: 2.6.23.9: x86_64: floppy not working: p35 chipset

[Justin Piszcz]

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 <davidsen@tmr.com>
>  "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.

Justin.

Re: 2.6.23.9: x86_64: floppy not working: p35 chipset

[Bill Davidsen]

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 <davidsen@tmr.com>
   "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
the machinations of the wicked."  - from Slashdot

Re: 2.6.23.9: x86_64: floppy not working: p35 chipset

[Bill Davidsen]

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 <davidsen@tmr.com>
>>  "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 <davidsen@tmr.com>
  "Woe unto the statesman who makes war without a reason that will still
  be valid when the war is over..." Otto von Bismark