Re: 2.6.16-rc1-mm4

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

"J.A. Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 14:45:33 -0800, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.16-rc1/2.6.16-rc1-mm4/
> > 
> >
> 
> I have problems with ide-floppy.
> Do not know if they are specific to this latest release, as I did not use
> my ZIP drive since long ago...Now I tried to make a boot zip with grub.
> 
> I inserted a mac floppy, partitioned it as hdb1, and as soon as fdisk wrote
> the partition table and forced a reread, the system began to scan the
> zip like crazy, and nothing appears on /proc/partitions ...
> 
> Ejected the disk, rmmod ide-floppy, insert the disk and everything is quiet.
> As soon as insmod ide-floppy, the party starts on syslog:
> 
> ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
> hdb: 244766kB, 489532 blocks, 512 sector size
> hdb: 244736kB, 239/64/32 CHS, 4096 kBps, 512 sector size, 2941 rpm
> hdb: The disk reports a capacity of 250640384 bytes, but the drive only handles 250609664
> hdb: The disk reports a capacity of 250640384 bytes, but the drive only handles 250609664
> hdb: hdb1
> 
> <last 3 messages repeated forever>
> 

>From my reading of the code, the above should have been a once-off warning
and the driver should have proceeded happily.  Strange that it repeated
those messages forever.

I guess the next step is to try some earlier kernels.