From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030225 Description of problem: When trying to format floppy disks using the floppy formatter via the system tools menu my system "locks up/hangs". The floppy light is stuck on and the only way to recover is to power off and on. I have built 4 identical system and they all do the same thing. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): ver 2.0 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Place floppy disk in drive 2. Navigate to floppy formatter thru the main menu and system tools 3. Choose options and click format Actual Results: The system will access the floppy and start the format progress bar. Then some seconds later everything stops and the system is dead. Expected Results: Formatting of floppy should have continued until the fornatting is complete. Additional info: 4 systems setup the same. Updated Bios Award 1004 and kernel: Linux version 2.4.20-19.9 ASUS P4S800 SIS 648FX motherboard 3GHz Intel CPU 800MHzFSB 1G DDR 400 memory 2-Maxtor 120Gig hard drives 1-cd-rw 1-dvd 1-floppy 8X AGP Geforce 4 64meg apollo graphics
The same happens in my system with kfloppy (kdeutils-3.1-4, KFloppy: 2.0) Besides, this seams to be related with bug 99299 (umounting /dev/fd0 after write hangs the system and reset button is the only way to restart). However I was able to write to floppy and successfully umount it once. Details of my system: Linux version 2.4.20-8 Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz ASUS P4S533-X motherboard AGP 4x GeForce 4 MX/Ti Driver: NVRM version: NVIDIA Linux x86 Kernel Module 1.0-4363
Even VMWare hangs the whole system when writing to floppy in Windows98
This seems more like a kernel bug. gfloppy shouldn't be able to do that.
I have the same problem in RHEL 3.0 with kernel 2.4.21-4.0.2. Another report is described at http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0310.1/1717.html. Problably a bad hardware/BIOS which kernel cannot work-around ;-)
This sounds like a "can't fix" but anyway reassigning.
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