Bug 70842
Summary: | Anaconda doesn't recognise Gateway Solo 9150's LS-120 | ||
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Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Public Beta | Reporter: | Scott Schmit <i.grok> |
Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Jeremy Katz <katzj> |
Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | Brock Organ <borgan> |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | limbo | ||
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | i386 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 2002-08-23 19:28:54 UTC | Type: | --- |
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Bug Blocks: | 67218 |
Description
Scott Schmit
2002-08-06 00:27:24 UTC
What is the output of python -c "from kudzu import * ; print probe (CLASS_FLOPPY, BUS_IDE | BUS_MISC | BUS_SCSI, PROBE_ALL)" Also, what's in /proc/ide/hdd/*? [Desc: 3.5" 1.44MB floppy drive Driver: unknown Device: fd0 , Desc: LS-120 S200 01 UHD Floppy Driver: ignore Device: hdd ] Oops, missed the /proc info: /proc/ide/hdd/capacity: 0 /proc/ide/hdd/driver: ide-floppy version 0.99.newide /proc/ide/hdd/geometry: physical 0/0/0 logical 963/8/32 /proc/ide/hdd/identify: 8080 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 3959 4531 3635 3739 3020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 0000 0000 0000 3031 3133 4c30 3132 4c53 2d31 3230 2053 3230 3020 2020 3031 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 5548 4420 466c 6f70 7079 0000 0000 0a00 0000 0200 0000 0003 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 00f0 00f0 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0101 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 /proc/ide/hdd/media: floppy /proc/ide/hdd/model: LS-120 S200 01 UHD Floppy /proc/ide/hdd/settings: name value min max mode ---- ----- --- --- ---- bios_cyl 963 0 1023 rw bios_head 8 0 255 rw bios_sect 32 0 63 rw breada_readahead 4 0 127 rw current_speed 0 0 69 rw file_readahead 0 0 2097151 rw ide_scsi 0 0 1 rw init_speed 0 0 69 rw io_32bit 0 0 3 rw keepsettings 0 0 1 rw max_kb_per_request 64 1 127 rw nice1 1 0 1 rw number 3 0 3 rw pio_mode write-only 0 255 w slow 0 0 1 rw ticks 0 0 255 rw unmaskirq 0 0 1 rw using_dma 0 0 1 rw Could you look on VC3 after you are in the loader and see if there is a line like: system floppy device is xxxx where xxx would be /dev/fd0 or something similar? Why does there appear to be a fd0 controller but no actual drive? Is the fd0 disabled in BIOS? There is such a line. It says: * system floppy device is fd0 Not that that means anything. From what I've been told/I understand, LS-120 drives work like this: At boot time, the LS-120 drive emulates/enables a floppy disk controller so that the system BIOS can use it to boot. Thus you can pop a floppy into the LS-120 drive and boot off the floppy as if the drive were a normal floppy drive. I've never tried it, but I wouldn't be suprised if you can't use an LS-120 disk to boot simply because the floppy disk controller/BIOS doesn't support LS-120 disks. So, yes, the system floppy device *WAS* fd0. However: Once bootup is complete, the floppy controller is disabled/ignored (by the drive, I would imagine, since I'm guessing it's purely a compatibility measure). At this point, any attempts to read/write disks via the floppy controller (fd0) will always fail because the drive has simply stopped listening. Instead, requests must go to the IDE chain (hdd). So, no, the system floppy device *ISN'T* fd0 any more. The bug, to reiterate, is that the installer/loader doesn't recognise my LS120 drive as such and realize that it needs to invoke the (already coded) LS120 workaround to get to the floppy it's requesting. *** Bug 70350 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Should be fixed now We are able to make use of an LS120 drive here at the office, so we think this is resolved. Unless you have something "special" going on, in which case, please reopen and we will research more and attempt to obtain the hardware in question. Time tracking values updated |