Re: EXT2 floppy problem in 2.1.8x

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
14 Feb 1998 01:00:20 GMT

Followup to: <Pine.LNX.3.95.980213220901.6692A-100000@shawc.demon.co.uk>
By author: Shaw Carruthers <shaw@shawc.demon.co.uk>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> I have narrowed down this problem to include/asm-i386/floppy.h.
>
> Setting can_use_virtual_dma=0 in drivers/block/floppy.c makes the problem
> go away.
>
> So the bug is in the vdma stuff,
>

That makes sense. The SYSLINUX installer broke at the same time the
VDMA stuff was introduced (it will happily corrupt a floppy.)

-hpa

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