From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750808AbWFBSGJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Jun 2006 14:06:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751342AbWFBSGJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Jun 2006 14:06:09 -0400 Received: from wx-out-0102.google.com ([66.249.82.199]:29147 "EHLO wx-out-0102.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750808AbWFBSGI (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Jun 2006 14:06:08 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=dxaPO4GC05PmT31AZmzTNkUKzoZEFuVblOo09Z3BmMI4+apn/9ZzdqMv3NrqW9dU2YBeAcmfw1n7SWvjLv+S+TlYv0nFcMDUQCWG0+FzPK7KjXcox9s3YMUKUwDkmSjmWCY5NAFCWaBweDmIQ7CJjr2S5ueFR43A3490m3iiNIs= Message-ID: <986ed62e0606021106j45721e54v136acac5e45f37af@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2006 11:06:07 -0700 From: "Barry K. Nathan" To: "Ingo Molnar" Subject: Re: 2.6.17-rc5-mm2 Cc: "Andrew Morton" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Arjan van de Ven" In-Reply-To: <986ed62e0606021101t6701d095ycd29c91885aaeec9@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20060601014806.e86b3cc0.akpm@osdl.org> <986ed62e0606011758w348080ebn6e8430ec9e5b2ed3@mail.gmail.com> <20060601183836.d318950e.akpm@osdl.org> <986ed62e0606020614j363bd71bn7d1fba23b78571f3@mail.gmail.com> <20060602142009.GA10236@elte.hu> <986ed62e0606021101t6701d095ycd29c91885aaeec9@mail.gmail.com> X-Google-Sender-Auth: e5c00c19e9ef0fe4 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 6/2/06, Barry K. Nathan wrote: > I'm doing building the kernel, but I haven't been able to boot it yet: That should be "done building". > This system boots the kernel off floppy disks, and under > 2.6.17-rc5-mm2, the floppy drive no longer works! The disk spins but > the kernel can't read any of the disk's sectors, even for other > known-working floppies. I'll have to boot back into 2.6.17-rc4-mm3 I notice that I get messages like this in dmesg with each disk access: [24067.495591] [24067.496740] floppy driver state [24067.497874] ------------------- [24067.499009] now=2371176 last interrupt=2370874 diff=302 last called handler=c021c69b [24067.501195] timeout_message=redo fd request [24067.502286] last output bytes: [24067.503500] 8 80 2287517 [24067.504716] 8 80 2287517 [24067.505960] 8 80 2287517 [24067.507173] 8 80 2287517 [24067.508347] 8 80 2287972 [24067.509480] 8 80 2287972 [24067.510611] 8 80 2287972 [24067.511745] 8 80 2287972 [24067.512876] 8 80 2288278 [24067.514007] 8 80 2288278 [24067.515138] 8 80 2288278 [24067.516281] 8 80 2288278 [24067.517403] 8 80 2343834 [24067.518456] 8 80 2343834 [24067.519705] 8 80 2343834 [24067.520910] 8 80 2343834 [24067.522099] 8 80 2370874 [24067.523290] 8 80 2370874 [24067.524481] 8 80 2370874 [24067.525638] 8 80 2370874 [24067.526772] last result at 2370874 [24067.527906] last redo_fd_request at 2370876 [24067.529041] [24067.530174] status=80 [24067.531305] fdc_busy=1 [24067.532436] floppy_work.func=c021a164 [24067.533570] cont=c0310e98 [24067.534651] current_req=dfe9a7d0 [24067.535747] command_status=-1 [24067.536937] [24067.538133] floppy0: floppy timeout called [24067.539345] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 The various numbers sometimes change however. I could provide a few more samples if need be. -- -Barry K. Nathan