Bug 10113 - floppy.c detects disk changes constantly
Summary: floppy.c detects disk changes constantly
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: kernel
Version: 6.1
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Michael K. Johnson
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2000-03-10 15:33 UTC by Nishanth Thomas
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2000-09-06 15:08:03 UTC
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Description Nishanth Thomas 2000-03-10 15:33:36 UTC
HP says that a high percentage of their hardware manifests this bug.

They get a constant stream of errors from autofs about floppy disk failures
(sorry, no specifics...more info coming on the exact error).  They've
looked into it and tracked it down to a constant string of disk change
detections coming from floppy.c

There are two possibilities; the hardware is telling floppy.c that a disk
change has occurred or there is a bug in floppy.c so that it returns a
false positive on this check.  The overwhelming evidence of our install
base points towards the former and not the latter, but HP has looked at the
code and disagrees.

So, if we could look into this code and see if there are any obvious
problems that would be helpful.  If we don't see anything, then we can test
on HP hardware and see what we get.

The final possibility is that HP has tracked this to the wrong place; if
so, we should test on their hardware and trace the errors ourselves.

I've glanced at their config, btw, and they look fine.  Contact
nthomas if you need more info.

Comment 1 Erik Troan 2000-09-06 06:47:29 UTC
Nathan, is this bug still an issue?

Comment 2 Mike Vaillancourt 2000-09-06 15:07:58 UTC
This is probably not an issue, at least with reguards to why it was opened. This
turned out to be a SNMP issue. This is alans response:

"Its correct behaviour. They are querying the floppy drive and other devices by
snmp and it is trying to see if there is a disk in and getting errors back from
the drive as it is empty"

HP agrees with this and has closed the issue.


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