From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; ja-JP; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030225 Description of problem: When I use a floppy disk with USB FDD, some I/O error occurs like follows: May 26 18:13:21 seiryu kernel: SCSI device sda: 2880 512-byte hdwr sectors (1 MB) May 26 18:13:21 seiryu kernel: sda: Write Protect is off May 26 18:13:22 seiryu kernel: sda: sda1 sda2 sda4 May 26 18:14:02 seiryu kernel: usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 2, frame# 370 May 26 18:14:02 seiryu kernel: I/O error: dev 08:01, sector 994231424 May 26 18:14:02 seiryu kernel: I/O error: dev 08:02, sector 1953459840 May 26 18:14:02 seiryu kernel: I/O error: dev 08:04, sector 1024116224 This error occurs with using a bootable floppy disk (ex. images/boot.img) or a floppy disk formated by MS-Windows. /proc/partitions at mounting a bootable floopy or is: 8 0 1440 sda 40 108 264 16351 0 0 0 0 0 16351 16351 8 1 497115833 sda1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 2 976730017 sda2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 4 512058189 sda4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 /proc/partitions at mounting a floppy formated by RHL8 using mkdosfs is: 8 0 1440 sda 45 135 328 18064 0 0 0 0 0 18064 18064 Why the recognization is different by kind of floopy disk? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.4.20-13.8 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Preparing two floppy disk. 2. Format the one by MS-Windows. -> A-disk 3. Format another one by mkdosfs. -> B-disk 4. Insert A-disk into USB Floppy and mount it. cat /proc/partitions. 5. Execute "mount -a" command, and see /var/log/message. 6. unmount A-disk and insert B-disk and mount it. cat /proc/partions. 7. Execute "mount -a" command. Actual Results: /var/log/message at step 5. May 26 18:14:02 seiryu kernel: I/O error: dev 08:01, sector 994231424 May 26 18:14:02 seiryu kernel: I/O error: dev 08:02, sector 1953459840 May 26 18:14:02 seiryu kernel: I/O error: dev 08:04, sector 1024116224 /proc/partitions at step 4. 8 0 1440 sda 40 108 264 16351 0 0 0 0 0 16351 16351 8 1 497115833 sda1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 2 976730017 sda2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 4 512058189 sda4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 /proc/partitions at step 6. 8 0 1440 sda 45 135 328 18064 0 0 0 0 0 18064 18064 Expected Results: All floppy disks is recognized by /proc/partitions as follows: 8 0 1440 sda 45 135 328 18064 0 0 0 0 0 18064 18064 Additional info: A Fujitsu engineer pointed this issue.
Is this a problem on a currently supported system (RHEL3 or FC1 or FC2)?
Sorry, I don't know whether currently supported systems have same problem or not.
Please forgive me, I know now that this problem still exists.
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