Bug 96971 - Floppy Drive refuses to work Kudzu error and block device error
Summary: Floppy Drive refuses to work Kudzu error and block device error
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: kernel
Version: 8.0
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Arjan van de Ven
QA Contact: Brian Brock
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-06-07 10:52 UTC by Ronald
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:54 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Last Closed: 2004-01-05 19:38:54 UTC
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Description Ronald 2003-06-07 10:52:24 UTC
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Description of problem:
Dear Sir,

Post a bug report to the Red Hat Bugzilla website so that our developers could
address this issue:

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla

Meanwhile, login as root and modify the '/etc/fstab' file:

vi /etc/fstab

Add the lines below:

/dev/fd0    /mnt/floppy     auto     noauto,owner,kudzu  0 0

Then, reboot the system.

Regards,
Michael
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Hardware is all connected and fstab gives with kudzu enabled:

[root@localhost root]# cat /etc/fstab
LABEL=/ 		/			ext3	defaults	1 1
none			/dev/pts		devpts	gid=5,mode=620	0 0
none			/proc			proc	defaults	0 0
none			/dev/shm		tmpfs	defaults	0 0
/dev/sda3		swap			swap	defaults	0 0
/dev/cdrom		/mnt/cdrom	      iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0

/dev/sda1	     /mnt/windows	      vfat   noauto,owner,users 0 0
/dev/hdd4		/mnt/zip		auto	noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
[root@localhost root]#
 
no floppy , adding floppy then gives error that floppy is not a valid block
device. Why does RedHat work so poorly??? What else do you need to know???






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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Each time the computer boots up
2.Floppy drive has worked for two years with windows NT

3. There is also a zip drive installed which works.
    

Actual Results:  Not able to Mount Floppy or after adding line to fstab block
device error

Expected Results:  Floppy should work

Additional info:

Your software may think the zip is the floppy.

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2003-06-08 01:44:31 UTC
zip drive is listed, see:

/dev/hdd4		/mnt/zip		auto	noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0

As for the floppy, if it's giving block device errors, that's a kernel issue.

Comment 2 Alan Cox 2003-06-08 02:02:29 UTC
Is this system a P4T-E. Also what kind of a floppy do you have - USB, standard,
other ?


Comment 3 Dave Jones 2004-01-05 19:38:54 UTC
EOL'd & NEEDINFO>6 months.



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