On Mon, 31 Aug 1998 17:54:16 -0700 (PDT), Jeremy Katz
<katzj@technojunkie.com> said:
> While running 2.1.X, I have noticed a little bit of strange behavior with
> floppy drive access. While running X and playing a sound (mainly tested
> with mp3s, but also happened once on a .wav), I can reliably freeze the
> machine 80% of the time by copying to or from the floppy drive. The first
> time this occurred (about a week ago), I thought it was just a fluke and
> looked over it. It has happened twice now in the past two days and I have
> replicated it several times since it happened earlier today. I am
> currently running 2.1.119 with framebuffer support and modular sound for a
> SB16. SysRq has no effect on the status of the machine, and nothing is
> logged in the kernel logs. Any suggestions? I will try patches or any
> method suggested to help resolve this problem.
Try it with 2.0 to see if the problem remains. It is quite possible
that this is a hardware issue, not software at all.
I once had an otherwise perfectly functioning SB16 (genuine) which
caused all manner of floppy corruptions. Just having the card in the
machine was enough to randomly corrupt floppy disk DMA traffic: there
was no fd crc error, but the results returned were corrupted by random
setting of about 1 in 500 bits. The same occurred under both DOS and
Linux. Moving the SB16 to another machine reproduced a different set of
floppy errors, so it was definitely the SB at fault.
--Stephen
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