Messages in this thread | | | From | ael <> | Subject | Re: Unable to format or use floppies since 2.6.28 | Date | Sat, 12 Dec 2009 09:33:14 +0000 |
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Mark Hounschell wrote: > I have many boxes. They all do the same thing. Running different versions of SuSE, 10.3-11.2. Any kernel at or above 2.6.28 fails to fdformat a floppy. These same machines, using the same floppies and drives, running kernels older than 2.6.28 work just fine. I googled and found other such reports but no solution. I know better than to just assume it's a kernel bug but it sure looks like it could be so I'm inquiring about it here. > > > # fdformat /dev/fd0u1440 > Double-sided, 80 tracks, 18 sec/track. Total capacity 1440 kB. > Formatting ... done > Verifying ... Problem reading cylinder 1, expected 18432, read 2048
Similar problems on debian testing: see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=548434
However, fdformat is ok on Gentoo under 2.6.31 and also on Ubuntu 2.6.32-rc6, so it seems it is not just the kernel version in any simplistic way.
A git-bisect seems the obvious next step?
ael
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