Hi.

I am having RH9.0 installed in my computer. It comes with 2.4.20-8
linux kernel. I upgraded it to 2.6.0-test11 kernel. But now I am not
able to use my floppy drive. When I do

# mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy

it takes a little bit of time and reports 'I/O error' and after
another few seconds reports 'invalid block device'. I have tried with
other device files - fd1, fd2...fd7 - but with the same results.

I have my floppy support in-built into the kernel. I also have the
ide-floppy support inbuilt. What else could be the problem?

Any ideas as to how I can go about solving this problem?

Thank you.

Rgds,
anna

On 18 Dec 2003 00:38:20 -0800, Annamalai Gurusami <annamalai.gurusami@email.masconit.com> wrote:
>
>
> Hi.
>
> I am having RH9.0 installed in my computer. It comes with 2.4.20-8
> linux kernel. I upgraded it to 2.6.0-test11 kernel. But now I am not
> able to use my floppy drive. When I do
>
> # mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
>
> it takes a little bit of time and reports 'I/O error' and after
> another few seconds reports 'invalid block device'. I have tried with
> other device files - fd1, fd2...fd7 - but with the same results.
>
> I have my floppy support in-built into the kernel. I also have the
> ide-floppy support inbuilt. What else could be the problem?
>
> Any ideas as to how I can go about solving this problem?
>
> Thank you.
>
> Rgds,
> anna

My 2.4* kernel is configured like yours, except that I have ide-floppy as
a module and it loads at boot time but I don't HAVE an ide-floppy :-)

So that probably isn't the problem.

I'd have a look in your BIOS configuration menu and/or see about feeding
different I/O values to the drivers via /proc. See your kernel docs in
/usr/src/linux/*/Documentation.

Mount also has a large number of options, so you might want to take a look
at the man page.

Sorry I can't be more specific. Floppy functionality is basically built in
to the motherboard, so it's gotta be something basic. Are you sure it
didn't break down?


AC

On 18 Dec 2003 00:38:20 -0800, annamalai.gurusami@email.masconit.com (Annamalai Gurusami) wrote:

> I have my floppy support in-built into the kernel. I also have the
> ide-floppy support inbuilt. What else could be the problem?

..... i'm pretty sure i've seen issues with this on the
LKML and a patch is avail - please check there for it

dont worry about doing anything/checking the BIOS. and
you probably dont need to worry about checking the man
page - if it worked previously, then the issue is gonna
be with a bugfix

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