Re: ide-floppy doesn't work with devfs 99.14/99.15

From: Andries Brouwer (aeb@veritas.com)
Date: Mon Jun 12 2000 - 17:35:09 EST


On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 02:30:32PM -0600, Richard Gooch wrote:

> Norbert Tretkowski writes:

> > after the Update from Linux 2.2.15 and devfs 99.12 to Linux 2.2.16 and
> > devfs 99.14 its no longer possible to access my LS-120:
> >
> > root@nexus:~# modprobe ide-floppy
> > hdd: The drive reports both 126222336 and 0 bytes as its capacity
>
> Bug in floppy driver?

Not necessarily.
This is normal e.g. when the drive had no media.

Norbert, could you report more details?
(What happens under 2.2.15 with and without media?
What happens under 2.2.16 with and without media?
Does having devfs make a difference?)

Andries

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