Re: ide-floppy seems to be broken in 2.2.0-pre8
Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 20 Jan 1999 08:36:30 +0000 (GMT)
> I just downloaded and installed kernel 2.2.0-pre8, but the kernel
> fails with detecting my LS-120 drive, wich worked well in version
> 2.2.0-pre7.
>
> 2.2.0-pre7 says:
> hdc: LS-120 VER4 07 UHD Floppy, ATAPI FLOPPY drive
>
> and 2.2.0-pre8 says:
> hdc: LS-120 VER4 07 UHD Floppy, ATAPI CDROM drive
>
> It seems like the kernel identifies my floppydrive as a CDROM, and
> later fails to mount the floppy.
Linus included a change to strstr() that doesnt quite come off - its a compiler
bug saga. Grab 2.2.0pre8ac1 - in fact all you need from it is the patches
to i386_ksyms and asm-i386/string.h
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