Re: 2.0.34 ide related opps....

Gadi Oxman (gadio@netvision.net.il)
Thu, 16 Jul 1998 00:05:07 +0400 (IDT)


On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, Dave Cinege wrote:

> I'm experiencing something interesting.
>
> 2.0.34 with Gadi's ide-floppy patch. (Patch submited for .34, I think it is now
> in .35pre) I'm not sure if this problem was present in .33
>
> LRP routers with LS-120 floppy's. (No HD at all)
> One is a very old 486 DX2 66 with a little idiot floppymax ide board.
> The other is a brand new A-BIT AX5(?) with onboard IDE
>
> If I attempt to mount a disk when the drive is empty I will see an oops.
> It will then no longer mount anything. A mount -t msdos /dev/hdg /mnt yields:
> hdg: bad access: block=0, count=2
> end_request: I/O error, dev 22:00, sector 0
> FAT bread failed
> Mount /dev/hdg (type msdos) on /mnt: wrong filesystem type, or bad superblock on
> /dev/hdg
>
> The only rememdy to get it mounting things again is a reboot.
>
> This does not happen on my workstation however. The two differences that come to
> mind
> #1 my system does not have atapi-floppy BIOS support.
> #2 my kernel DOES have triton DMA ide support.
>
> --
> http://www.psychosis.com/emc/ Elite MicroComputers 732-541-4214
> http://www.psychosis.com/linux-router/ Linux Router Project
>
> I am a regex retard. Behold. Take pity.

I was missing an argument to printk() in the ide-floppy patch; fixed
in 2.0.35pre7 and above.

Gadi

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