Bug 102565
| Summary: | System hangs when running fdformat | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Brad <bradb> |
| Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Arjan van de Ven <arjanv> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Brian Brock <bbrock> |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 9 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i686 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2004-09-30 15:41:27 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.7 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20030131 Description of problem: I have tried to run fdformat /dev/fd0H1440 and it gets to "68" - I assune that it means "Track 68" and then stops. The whole system locks up and I have to power off and on again. I took the floppy out and formatted it under Win2K and there are no bad sectors. I then put the floppy disk back in the Red Hat floppy drive and copied a couple of files to it and then unmounted it and took the disk to another Red Hat box and read the disk OK. Even if there WAS a problem with the floppy disk or floppy disk drive, I would not expect it to lock the PC. ie Caps lock/Num lock don't work, no other virtual screens available, can't telnet in etc. I removed the floppy and it was still the same. Just LOCKED. I left it for 10 minutes and it was still locked. I had to hit the RESET button to get the system working again. Surely there must be a way of stoping the floppy disk accesss so that the system can be freed up again? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. See description 2. 3. Additional info: