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Message-ID: <2375c9f90912170104s522f0b1bqe0ae76f42e8abf51@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:04:01 +0800
From: Américo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
To: law_ence.dev@...world.com, Mark Hounschell <markh@...pro.net>,
Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Unable to format or use floppies since 2.6.28
On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 5:33 PM, ael <ael@...e.none> wrote:
> Mark Hounschell wrote:
>>
>> I have many boxes. They all do the same thing. Running different versions
>> of SuSE, 10.3-11.2. Any kernel at or above 2.6.28 fails to fdformat a
>> floppy. These same machines, using the same floppies and drives, running
>> kernels older than 2.6.28 work just fine. I googled and found other such
>> reports but no solution. I know better than to just assume it's a kernel bug
>> but it sure looks like it could be so I'm inquiring about it here.
>>
>> # fdformat /dev/fd0u1440
>> Double-sided, 80 tracks, 18 sec/track. Total capacity 1440 kB.
>> Formatting ... done
>> Verifying ... Problem reading cylinder 1, expected 18432, read 2048
>
> Similar problems on debian testing: see
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=548434
>
> However, fdformat is ok on Gentoo under 2.6.31 and also on Ubuntu
> 2.6.32-rc6, so it seems it is not just the kernel version in any
> simplistic way.
>
> A git-bisect seems the obvious next step?
>
Wait...
There are only 13 changes related to floppy since 2.6.28, kick out 2 changes
which just did some constifying, there are 11 only.
The most suspicious one should be commit 1011c1b9f2e from Tejun.
Mark, reverting that patch can help?
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