2.3.99-pre3 Alpha floppy init failure

From: Tom Holroyd (tomh@po.crl.go.jp)
Date: Sun Apr 02 2000 - 22:56:35 EST


Alpha DP264, uniprocessor version.

I cold-booted the system this morning, and the floppy didn't work. I
recompiled it as a module, rebooted; it still didn't work, and it
produced this:

Apr 3 10:08:59 holly kernel: inserting floppy driver for 2.3.99-pre3
Apr 3 10:08:59 holly kernel: Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 2.88M
Apr 3 10:09:02 holly kernel: floppy0: no floppy controllers found
Apr 3 10:09:02 holly insmod: /lib/modules/2.3.99-pre3/block/floppy.o: init_module: Device or resource busy
Apr 3 10:09:02 holly insmod: /lib/modules/2.3.99-pre3/block/floppy.o: insmod block-major-2 failed

I rebooted 2.2.15, floppy worked. Then rebooted 2.3.99-pre3, floppy
worked.

Apr 3 10:14:40 holly kernel: inserting floppy driver for 2.2.15pre13
Apr 3 10:14:40 holly kernel: Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 2.88M
Apr 3 10:14:40 holly kernel: FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
...
Apr 3 10:20:28 holly kernel: inserting floppy driver for 2.3.99-pre3
Apr 3 10:20:28 holly kernel: Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 2.88M
Apr 3 10:20:28 holly kernel: FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077

So 2.2.15 is doing some initialization that 2.3.99-pre3 is failing to do.

Dr. Tom Holroyd
"I am, as I said, inspired by the biological phenomena in which
chemical forces are used in repetitious fashion to produce all
kinds of weird effects (one of which is the author)."
        -- Richard Feynman, _There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom_

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