Bug 81703
| Summary: | (FLOPPY PCI)can't access floppy after RH 8.0 install | ||||||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Kenneth H. Riley <khriley> | ||||
| Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Arjan van de Ven <arjanv> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Brian Brock <bbrock> | ||||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | medium | ||||||
| Version: | 8.0 | ||||||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||
| Hardware: | i586 | ||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |||||
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| Last Closed: | 2004-09-30 15:40:24 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||
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| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |||||
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||
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Created attachment 89328 [details]
Boot messages captured at serial console
At the LILO "boot:" prompt, I added floppy=debug to see if I could get
more verbose output for the floppy problem. I didn't.
kenyatta~$ cd /proc
kenyatta/proc$ cat pci
PCI devices found:
Bus 0, device 0, function 0:
Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82434LX [Mercury/Neptune] (rev 17).
Master Capable. Latency=64.
Bus 0, device 1, function 0:
IDE interface: Micron FDC 37C665 (rev 1).
I/O at 0x1f0 [0x1f7].
I/O at 0x3f4 [0x3f7].
Bus 0, device 2, function 0:
Non-VGA unclassified device: Intel Corp. 82378IB [SIO ISA Bridge] (rev 67).
Bus 0, device 6, function 0:
SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AIC-7892A U160/m (rev 2).
IRQ 15.
Master Capable. Latency=64. Min Gnt=40.Max Lat=25.
I/O at 0xfc00 [0xfcff].
Non-prefetchable 64 bit memory at 0xffbff000 [0xffbfffff].
Bus 0, device 12, function 0:
VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage Pro 215GP (rev 92).
Master Capable. Latency=66. Min Gnt=8.
Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xa0000000 [0xa0ffffff].
I/O at 0xe000 [0xe0ff].
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xa1000000 [0xa1000fff].
Bus 0, device 14, function 0:
Ethernet controller: Accton Technology Corporation SMC2-1211TX (rev 16).
IRQ 11.
Master Capable. Latency=66. Min Gnt=32.Max Lat=64.
I/O at 0xf800 [0xf8ff].
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xffbfec00 [0xffbfecff].
Change bug component from 'kernel' to 'kudzu'. Ken Riley khriley Thanks for the bug report. However, Red Hat no longer maintains this version of the product. Please upgrade to the latest version and open a new bug if the problem persists. The Fedora Legacy project (http://fedoralegacy.org/) maintains some older releases, and if you believe this bug is interesting to them, please report the problem in the bug tracker at: http://bugzilla.fedora.us/ |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i586; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021003 Description of problem: After installing RH8.0 from cdrom the floppy drive cannot be accessed from linux. When I attempt to mount the floppy with, say, a driver disk in the floppy: mount /dev/fd0 /mnt I get mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device I can use the floppy drive just fine when I boot Win 98SE. Also, during the installation, the creation of a boot disk failed. I also noticed that the addresses assigned to my primary IDE controller were not quite right: kenyatta~$ cd /proc kenyatta/proc$ cat ioports 0000-001f : dma1 0020-003f : pic1 0040-005f : timer 0060-006f : keyboard 0070-007f : rtc 0080-008f : dma page reg 00a0-00bf : pic2 00c0-00df : dma2 00f0-00ff : fpu 01f0-01f7 : Micron FDC 37C665 02f8-02ff : serial(auto) 0330-0331 : mpu401 0332-0337 : SoundScape 0378-037a : parport0 037b-037f : parport0 03c0-03df : vga+ 03f4-03f7 : Micron FDC 37C665 <== This should be 03f6-03f6 !!! 03f8-03ff : serial(auto) 0534-0537 : SoundScape PNP 0cf8-0cfb : PCI conf2 e000-e0ff : ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage Pro 215GP f800-f8ff : Accton Technology Corporation SMC2-1211TX f800-f8ff : 8139too fc00-fcff : Adaptec AIC-7892A U160/m At boot time, the floppy appears to be busy: Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M, fd1 is 1.2M floppy0: Floppy io-port 0x03f2 in use In /proc/ioports, The primary IDE device appears to be using part of the I/O space of the primary floppy. In fact, the identification of the PCI IDE device as a "Micron FDC 37C665" is strange. I have an Intel Premiere/PCI-II (Plato) mother board. The primary IDE device is a PC Tech RZ1000. It is a PCI device. The board also has a Standard Microsystems Corporation FDC 37c665 super IO controller. This controller provides two serial ports, one parallel port, a floppy controller and an ISA IDE controller that is the secondary IDE device. I created a boot disk in Win98SE using rawrite. I can boot from the floppy but I cannot use a driver disk. If a boot from a RH8.0 boot disk and use the RH8.0 CD rom, when I use Control-Alt-F2 to enter the shell, I cannot use the floppy. If I boot from a RH7.2 boot floppy and use the RH8.0 CD-rom, when I enter the shell, I can use the floppy OK and /proc/ioports shows the primary IDE device using only ports 0x1f0-ox1f7 and 0x3f6. This problem appears to be similiar to bug reports 69048, 76513 and 77886. Please help. I can provide any additional information required. Ken Riley khriley I have both IDE controllers busied out in the BIOS since I have an all SCSI system. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot RH8.0 linux 2. put a formatted disk into the floppy drive 3. As root, type: mount /dev/fd0 /mnt Actual Results: I get the error message: mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device Expected Results: The floppy should have been mounted onto the /mnt mount point. Additional info: This happened with the Red Had Linux 8.0 Professional retail distribution. The kernel is 2.4.18-14. I have since upgraded to 2.4.18-19.8.0 and still have the same problem.