Description of problem: With my newly installed FC3 I cannot use the floppy disk. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: consistently present. Steps to Reproduce: 1. install FC3 2. try to mount floppy 3. Actual results: [petri@Volterra ~]$ mount /mnt/floppy mount: can't find /mnt/floppy in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab Expected results: Additional info: [petri@Volterra ~]$ cat /etc/fstab # This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 / ext3 defaults 1 1 LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/hdc /media/cdrecorder auto pamconsole,fscontext=system_u:object_r:removable_t,ro,exec,noauto,managed 0 0 [petri@Volterra ~]$ cat /etc/sysconfig/hwconf - class: OTHER bus: PCI detached: 0 driver: unknown desc: "Triones Technologies, Inc. HPT366/368/370/370A/372" vendorId: 1103 deviceId: 0004 subVendorId: 0000 subDeviceId: 0000 pciType: 1 pcidom: 0 pcibus: 0 pcidev: 13 pcifn: 1 - class: OTHER bus: PCI detached: 0 driver: unknown desc: "Triones Technologies, Inc. HPT366/368/370/370A/372" vendorId: 1103 deviceId: 0004 subVendorId: 0000 subDeviceId: 0000 pciType: 1 pcidom: 0 pcibus: 0 pcidev: 13 pcifn: 0 - class: OTHER bus: PCI detached: 0 driver: emu10k1-gp desc: "Creative Labs SB Live! MIDI/Game Port" vendorId: 1102 deviceId: 7002 subVendorId: 1102 subDeviceId: 0020 pciType: 1 pcidom: 0 pcibus: 0 pcidev: d pcifn: 1 - class: OTHER bus: PCI detached: 0 driver: unknown desc: "Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI" vendorId: 8086 deviceId: 7113 subVendorId: 0000 subDeviceId: 0000 pciType: 1 pcidom: 0 pcibus: 0 pcidev: 7 pcifn: 3 - class: OTHER bus: PCI detached: 0 driver: unknown desc: "Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA" vendorId: 8086 deviceId: 7110 subVendorId: 0000 subDeviceId: 0000 pciType: 1 pcidom: 0 pcibus: 0 pcidev: 7 pcifn: 0 - class: OTHER bus: PCI detached: 0 driver: unknown desc: "Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge" vendorId: 8086 deviceId: 7191 subVendorId: 0000 subDeviceId: 0000 pciType: 1 pcidom: 0 pcibus: 0 pcidev: 1 pcifn: 0 - class: OTHER bus: PCI detached: 0 driver: agpgart desc: "Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge" vendorId: 8086 deviceId: 7190 subVendorId: 0000 subDeviceId: 0000 pciType: 1 pcidom: 0 pcibus: 0 pcidev: 0 pcifn: 0 - class: OTHER bus: USB detached: 0 driver: unknown desc: "Linux 2.6.9-1.667 uhci_hcd UHCI Host Controller" usbclass: 9 usbsubclass: 0 usbprotocol: 0 usbbus: 1 usblevel: 0 usbport: 0 usbdev: 1 vendorId: 0000 deviceId: 0000 usbmfr: Linux 2.6.9-1.667 uhci_hcd usbprod: UHCI Host Controller - class: NETWORK bus: PCI detached: 0 device: eth0 driver: 8139too desc: "Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+" network.hwaddr: 00:00:21:11:4F:2B vendorId: 10ec deviceId: 8139 subVendorId: 10ec subDeviceId: 8139 pciType: 1 pcidom: 0 pcibus: 0 pcidev: b pcifn: 0 - class: MOUSE bus: PSAUX detached: 0 device: input/mice driver: generic3ps/2 desc: "ImExPS/2 Logitech Explorer Mouse" - class: AUDIO bus: PCI detached: 0 driver: snd-emu10k1 desc: "Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1" vendorId: 1102 deviceId: 0002 subVendorId: 1102 subDeviceId: 8040 pciType: 1 pcidom: 0 pcibus: 0 pcidev: d pcifn: 0 - class: CDROM bus: IDE detached: 0 device: hdc driver: ignore desc: "R/RW 4x4x24" - class: VIDEO bus: PCI detached: 0 driver: Card:NVIDIA GeForce 2 MX (generic) desc: "nVidia Corporation NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400]" vendorId: 10de deviceId: 0110 subVendorId: 10b0 subDeviceId: 0002 pciType: 1 pcidom: 0 pcibus: 0 pcidev: 11 pcifn: 0 - class: FLOPPY bus: MISC detached: 1 device: fd0 driver: unknown desc: "3.5" 1.44MB floppy drive" - class: HD bus: IDE detached: 0 device: hda driver: ignore desc: "SAMSUNG SP0411N" physical: 4047/16/255 logical: 16383/255/63 - class: KEYBOARD bus: PSAUX detached: 0 driver: ignore desc: "AT Translated Set 2 keyboard" - class: USB bus: PCI detached: 0 driver: uhci-hcd desc: "Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB" vendorId: 8086 deviceId: 7112 subVendorId: 0000 subDeviceId: 0000 pciType: 1 pcidom: 0 pcibus: 0 pcidev: 7 pcifn: 2 - class: IDE bus: PCI detached: 0 driver: unknown desc: "Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE" vendorId: 8086 deviceId: 7111 subVendorId: 0000 subDeviceId: 0000 pciType: 1 pcidom: 0 pcibus: 0 pcidev: 7 pcifn: 1 - - - - - Apparently the floppy has been detected by kudzu. What surprises me is that for the floppy the value of "detached" attribute is 1 as for all other devices it is 0. What does this indicate ? It also surprises me that the CD-RW device does not appear on this list. I have successfully installed FC3 from this CD-RW. What may be wrong ? I have tried manually adding a row for floppy: /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0 With these changes an attempt to mount results in a message reporting that this is not a blockdevice. Any proposals ? Petri
Is the floppy driver loaded? Does the device node exist?
floppy driver is loaded with an MSDOS disk. this is what I can find at /dev: [petri@Volterra ~]$ cd /dev [petri@Volterra dev]$ ls fd* fd0 fd0h1200 fd0h1660 fd0h720 fd0u1440 fd0u1760 fd0u3520 fd0u820 fd0CompaQ fd0h1440 fd0h360 fd0H720 fd0u1660 fd0u1840 fd0u360 fd0u830 fd0d360 fd0H1440 fd0H360 fd0h880 fd0u1680 fd0u1920 fd0u3840 fd0D360 fd0h1476 fd0h410 fd0u1040 fd0u1722 fd0u2880 fd0u720 fd0D720 fd0h1494 fd0h420 fd0u1120 fd0u1743 fd0u3200 fd0u800 fd: 0 1 2 3
Any error messages from the kernel (check the output of 'dmesg') after you try to mount /dev/fd0?
[petri@Volterra ~]$ mount /dev/fd0 mount: can't find /dev/fd0 in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab [petri@Volterra ~]$ cat /etc/fstab # This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 / ext3 defaults 1 1 LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/hdc /media/cdrecorder auto pamconsole,exec,noauto,fscontext=system_u:object_r:removable_t,managed 0 0
No new messages reported by /bin/dmesg after failing mount tried.
What about: mount /dev/fd0 /mnt (or some other temporary directory)
Kernel messages from boot time include: [petri@Volterra ~]$ /bin/dmesg | grep fd0 Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M [petri@Volterra ~]$ /bin/dmesg | grep floppy ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide Last messages reported by dmesg. As you can see below, failing attempts to mount /dev/fd0 or /mnt do not produce new kernel messages. [petri@Volterra ~]$ /bin/dmesg | tail ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1 SELinux: initialized (dev rpc_pipefs, type rpc_pipefs), uses genfs_contexts SELinux: initialized (dev autofs, type autofs), uses genfs_contexts pnp: Device 00:09 activated. parport: PnPBIOS parport detected. parport0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 7 [PCSPP,TRISTATE] lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven). lp0: console ready eth0: no IPv6 routers present [petri@Volterra ~]$ mount /dev/fd0 mount: can't find /dev/fd0 in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab [petri@Volterra ~]$ /bin/dmesg | tail ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1 SELinux: initialized (dev rpc_pipefs, type rpc_pipefs), uses genfs_contexts SELinux: initialized (dev autofs, type autofs), uses genfs_contexts pnp: Device 00:09 activated. parport: PnPBIOS parport detected. parport0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 7 [PCSPP,TRISTATE] lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven). lp0: console ready eth0: no IPv6 routers present [petri@Volterra ~]$ mount /mnt mount: can't find /mnt in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab [petri@Volterra ~]$ /bin/dmesg | tail ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1 SELinux: initialized (dev rpc_pipefs, type rpc_pipefs), uses genfs_contexts SELinux: initialized (dev autofs, type autofs), uses genfs_contexts pnp: Device 00:09 activated. parport: PnPBIOS parport detected. parport0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 7 [PCSPP,TRISTATE] lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven). lp0: console ready eth0: no IPv6 routers present
Sorry, perhaps I wasn't clear. I want to know if there are any errors from: "mount /dev/fd0 /mnt"
There are kernel messages: [petri@Volterra samba]$ sudo mount /dev/fd0 /mnt This command does not exit (not within 30 secs). Ctrl-C used to force the shell to be released. [petri@Volterra samba]$ /bin/dmesg | tail SELinux: initialized (dev smbfs, type smbfs), uses genfs_contexts end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 Buffer I/O error on device fd0, logical block 0 end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 Buffer I/O error on device fd0, logical block 0 end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 Buffer I/O error on device fd0, logical block 0 [petri@Volterra samba]$ Then finally after a delay of about 60 sec the system just spontaneously prints the following text to the terminal /dev/fd0: Invalid argument
OK, this is either a problem with the floppy driver, or just a bad floppy disk.
Confirmed. Not a bug. Closer hw review proves that power to the floppy drive was not well connected. Thank you for your excellent responses on this thread !