Bug 3362 – Floppy drive functionality on Sparc Ultra 5 (PCI bus)

Bug 3362 - Floppy drive functionality on Sparc Ultra 5 (PCI bus)

Summary:	Floppy drive functionality on Sparc Ultra 5 (PCI bus)

Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	mount (Show other bugs)
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Version:	6.0
Hardware:	sparc Linux

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Assigned To:	David Miller
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Reported:	1999-06-09 11:03 EDT by baileydl
Modified:	2008-05-01 11:37 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	1999-08-13 19:19:11 EDT
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Description baileydl 1999-06-09 11:03:17 EDT

Have done a self test on the floppy drive--OK.  On boot, the
floppy drive seems to be detected by the kernel--OK.

However, mounting or formatting disks fail.  The same
commands and disks work fine on the Intel boxes, but cause
I/O errors or complete hangs on the Ultra 5.

Comment 1 baileydl 1999-06-09 13:14:59 EDT

Same drive works fine in Solaris, formats, mounts, reads OK.

Used brand new floppy and performed df on Intel with results:

Filesystem	1k-blocks	Used	Available	Use%
/dev/fd0	7415699		666085	6365261		9%

However, df in Linux on Ultra 5 of same new floppy returns:

/dev/fd0	5375599		1037830	4059435		20%

dmesg from bootup reports:
FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306

Comment 2 David Miller 1999-08-02 04:16:59 EDT

I am working on this bug, I've known about it for some
time.  If things work out, the upcoming kernel erratas
will fix this problem.  It only happens on Ultra5/Ultra10
systems, other PCI and SBUS Sparcs should be OK about
floppies for the most part.

Comment 3 David Miller 1999-08-03 03:23:59 EDT

I've found and fixed this bug.  It will be fixed in the
upcoming kernel updates...

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