Bug 109254 - can't mount floppy
Summary: can't mount floppy
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: 1
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Dave Jones
QA Contact: Brian Brock
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-11-06 05:08 UTC by haibin zhang
Modified: 2015-01-04 22:03 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2004-06-18 22:51:55 UTC
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Description haibin zhang 2003-11-06 05:08:09 UTC
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Description of problem:
Bad: can't mount floppy


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.install redhat 9.0
2.install kernel-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl
3.rpm -ivh kernel-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl.i686.rpm
4.reboot .you will find system has remove floppy from /etc/fstab to
/etc/fstab.REVOKE,and can't use floppy

    

Actual Results:  can't mount floppy

Expected Results:  can use floppy as old time

Additional info:

Comment 1 Stephen Lewis 2003-11-17 20:48:30 UTC
Problem also present in kernel-2.4.22-1.2108.nptl.athlon.rpm using
Asus A7V333-X mobo & RH9 with all latest updates. Floppy works fine
with kernel-2.4.20-20.9; rebooting with 2108 or 2115 floppy not found:


[lewis@dogbert sw]$ sudo !!
sudo mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy/
Password:
mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device
[lewis@dogbert sw]$ dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/dev/null
dd: opening `/dev/fd0': No such device or address

... but the good news is the b44 driver in this kernel works a dream 8-)


Comment 2 Dave Jones 2003-11-20 19:32:32 UTC
is the floppy module loaded ?
any floppy related messages in dmesg ?


Comment 3 Stephen Lewis 2003-11-21 15:33:05 UTC
The floppy module was not loaded - presumably it's not a module in
2.4.20.20.9.

Loading module, floppy works fine, so problem solved.


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