From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 7 Jul 2002 06:55:02 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 7 Jul 2002 06:55:02 -0400 Received: from harpo.it.uu.se ([130.238.12.34]:64992 "EHLO harpo.it.uu.se") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 7 Jul 2002 06:55:01 -0400 Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2002 12:57:37 +0200 (MET DST) From: Mikael Pettersson Message-Id: <200207071057.MAA17209@harpo.it.uu.se> To: fbujanic@fikus.com Subject: Re: PROBLEM: floppy oops in 2.5.25 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 6 Jul 2002 22:27:23 -0400 (EDT), Filip J. Bujanic wrote: >[1.] One line summary of the problem: > accessing floppy drive oopses 2.5.25 kernel If you had searched the LKML archives you would soon have found out that the floppy driver is known to be broken since 2.5.13. A partial fix exists which eliminates the oopses and allows raw /dev/fd0 accesses to work; VFS accesses to mounted floppies are still broken however. You can get it from the -dj patch or from http://www.csd.uu.se/~mikpe/linux/patches/2.5/patch-fix-floppy-2.5.25 /Mikael