Bug 6407
Summary: | Floppy driver problem on external Thinkpad FDD | ||
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Product: | Platform Specific/Hardware | Reporter: | Andre Colomb (acolomb) |
Component: | Other | Assignee: | platform_other |
Status: | CLOSED PATCH_ALREADY_AVAILABLE | ||
Severity: | normal | CC: | axboe, bunk, diegocg, protasnb |
Priority: | P2 | ||
Hardware: | i386 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
Kernel Version: | 2.6.16 | Subsystem: | |
Regression: | --- | Bisected commit-id: | |
Attachments: | Syslog portion |
Description
Andre Colomb
2006-04-18 15:18:17 UTC
Created attachment 7897 [details]
Syslog portion
As it has been a while since I reported this bug, I'm just wondering if anybody got the report. I'm not sure if the selected category is correct, but I couldn't find anything that suits better for floppy drives. There're people reading it, but it may be hard to find someone who can/want to fix it. Sadly, there're few people willing to work in "outdated" technology (many people doesn't even have floppies to test anymore) and even more if the problems comes from using "weird" hardware (no easy to get a laptop + that external drive to test it) ;( There's also another problem, and is that historically, the driver floppy has never had a real maintainer, many people touches it but nobody compromises seriously to maintain it. Anyway, in case someone tries to fix it, it may be useful to get a dmesg output and things like that. (PD: I noticed you compressed your syslog output attachment. Please don't, it's much easier to handle attachments when they're not compressed) Andre, Can you confirm the problem still there with the latest kernels? Thanks. (In reply to comment #4) I just hooked up my external floppy drive to the docking station while the system was already booted, inserted a floppy disk and mounted it without further complications, no module parameters needed either. Seems to work now. I haven't tried in a long time, but the happier I am now :-) I haven't tested booting with the floppy drive attached, but I guess that should work if even warm-plugging works. If you wish, you can close the bug. Regards, Andre How silly of me... I am using kernel 2.6.21.1 with the suspend2 patch applied... Thanks a lot! Andre |