[ltp] Problems with Floppy Drive

[Brent Gonder]

Yes, I am having similar problems.
- The floppy is recognized when the dmesg command is issued, and upon
bootup
- During Debian 2.2 r6 install, a floppy cannot be created, as it fails.

My ThinkPad is an A21p 2629 rr9 
Confirmed that the floppy works when using XP 2000, and 98
I tried 'floppy=thinkpad' but this made no difference.
The floppy drive is virtually useless at this point.
(A real pain if you are attempting to create floppy based routers..)

After a base install, I ran superformat /dev/fd0 hd and it returned the
following:

Measuring drive 0's raw capacity       - seems to fail immediately 

(following info was copied from the dmesg command)
(-it is the same message that appears after an attempted superformat)

floppy0: floppy timeout called

floppy driver state
-------------------
now=116814 last interrupt=116516 diff=298 last called handler=c018be44
timeout_message=floppy start
last output bytes:
 8 80 116514
 8 80 116514
12 80 116516
 0 90 116516
13 80 116516
 0 90 116516
1a 90 116516
 0 90 116516
 3 80 116516
c1 90 116516
10 90 116516
 7 80 116516
 0 90 116516
 8 81 116516
4d 80 116516
 0 90 116516
 2 90 116516
 1 90 116516
ff 90 116516
 3 90 116516
last result at 116516
last redo_fd_request at 116514
20  0 
status=10
fdc_busy=1
DEVICE_INTR=c018ae48
fd_timer.function=c018adb0
cont=c02c0dfc
CURRENT=00000000
command_status=-1


Hope this can be of some help.

Anyone else having this problem ?


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-linux-thinkpad@bm-soft.com
[mailto:owner-linux-thinkpad@bm-soft.com] On Behalf Of Tino Keitel
Sent: Monday, April 08, 2002 3:07 AM
To: linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com
Subject: Re: [ltp] Problems with Floppy Drive

On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 21:54:31 -0700, Jason MacDermott wrote:
> I am a Linux & ThinkPad newbie - I have successfully installed Debian
2.2 on a model 365CS (I think) ThinkPad.  Now, the only way I can get
Debian packages onto this machine (until I get a PCMCIA Network card
that can be configured for it) is by floppy.

> 
> No big deal, I thought - but even though I can mount a WinDOS floppy,
and even "ls" is and see the files, every time I try to copy anything,
it fails.

What do you mean by "it fails"? Please give us the exact error message.

> 
> Is there a known problem with the ThinkPad floppy?  I can't figure out
why this would be happening when it installed off the same drive!

AFAIK, older ThinkPads need a kernel parameter floppy=thinkpad. However,
I
really don't know if this applies to a 365.

> 
> Thanks,
> Jay

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