Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 2 Jun 2006 11:06:07 -0700 | From | "Barry K. Nathan" <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.17-rc5-mm2 |
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On 6/2/06, Barry K. Nathan <barryn@pobox.com> wrote: > I'm doing building the kernel, but I haven't been able to boot it yet:
That should be "done building".
> This system boots the kernel off floppy disks, and under > 2.6.17-rc5-mm2, the floppy drive no longer works! The disk spins but > the kernel can't read any of the disk's sectors, even for other > known-working floppies. I'll have to boot back into 2.6.17-rc4-mm3
I notice that I get messages like this in dmesg with each disk access:
[24067.495591] [24067.496740] floppy driver state [24067.497874] ------------------- [24067.499009] now=2371176 last interrupt=2370874 diff=302 last called handler=c021c69b [24067.501195] timeout_message=redo fd request [24067.502286] last output bytes: [24067.503500] 8 80 2287517 [24067.504716] 8 80 2287517 [24067.505960] 8 80 2287517 [24067.507173] 8 80 2287517 [24067.508347] 8 80 2287972 [24067.509480] 8 80 2287972 [24067.510611] 8 80 2287972 [24067.511745] 8 80 2287972 [24067.512876] 8 80 2288278 [24067.514007] 8 80 2288278 [24067.515138] 8 80 2288278 [24067.516281] 8 80 2288278 [24067.517403] 8 80 2343834 [24067.518456] 8 80 2343834 [24067.519705] 8 80 2343834 [24067.520910] 8 80 2343834 [24067.522099] 8 80 2370874 [24067.523290] 8 80 2370874 [24067.524481] 8 80 2370874 [24067.525638] 8 80 2370874 [24067.526772] last result at 2370874 [24067.527906] last redo_fd_request at 2370876 [24067.529041] [24067.530174] status=80 [24067.531305] fdc_busy=1 [24067.532436] floppy_work.func=c021a164 [24067.533570] cont=c0310e98 [24067.534651] current_req=dfe9a7d0 [24067.535747] command_status=-1 [24067.536937] [24067.538133] floppy0: floppy timeout called [24067.539345] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
The various numbers sometimes change however. I could provide a few more samples if need be. -- -Barry K. Nathan <barryn@pobox.com> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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