I've got a problem w/my floppy drive. It works fine on 1.2.13 with
the same floppies, but not on 2.0.10, 2.0.17 (and I think 2.0.13 also).
The symptoms has been the same on all of the 2.0 kernels.
The problem exists w/tar, dd, and mdir. They all return info like:
$ mdir
floppy0: long rw: 16 instead of 12
rs=5 s=1
rh=1 h=0
rt=0 t=0
spt=18 st=0 ss=1
Probable non-MSDOS disk
or:
$ tar tvf /dev/fd0
floppy0: long rw: 16 instead of 12
rs=5 s=1
rh=1 h=0
rt=0 t=0
spt=18 st=0 ss=1
tar: Hmm, this doesn't look like a tar archive
I've seen the numbers change slightly (rw: 15 I think).
I haven't had any other problems with 2.0 kernels.
This is a 1.44MB floppy on a Micron Millenia Transport Laptop P133
Intel 430MX PCI chipset (PCI devices 0x1234, 0x1235).
Floppy support is not a module.
One other interesting thing to note. When the AC power is attached
the BogoMIPS are double than w/o AC (53.04 vs. 25.34). I assume
this is just because the HW is going into power saving mode, no problem.
Anybody got any ideas? I can try other kernels or provide more detail
on hardware or config if it will help.
Thanks,
Neal
-- Neal Norwitz Interact Corp. neal@in7.com P.O. Box 7683 301 881 0343 Arlington, Va. 22207