Floppy Access Goes Nowhere

[Kurt Wall]

Quoth Net Llama!:
> 
> Ah, the one i sold you ;)  This is the 420 or the 660?

A StartMP?

> >I could pop for a controller - they couldn't be that expensive.
> >
> >syslog says:
> >
> >Jul  5 21:42:10 luther kernel: floppy0: Over/Underrun - retrying
> >Jul  5 22:01:58 luther kernel: floppy0: Over/Underrun - retrying
> >Jul  5 22:01:58 luther kernel: floppy0: Over/Underrun - retrying
> >Jul  5 22:01:59 luther kernel: floppy0: Over/Underrun - retrying
> >
> >Turning on debug shows all of ioctl()s going across, but nothing
> >that looked bad to me (but I might not know what misbehavior looks
> >like, either). A couple of examples:
> >
> >Jul  5 22:22:32 luther kernel: floppy0: reschedule timeout lock fdc
> >Jul  5 22:22:32 luther kernel: floppy0: reschedule timeout do wakeup
> 
> If you can read German, this dude was having the same problem:
> http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&safe=off&threadm=slrnar15ib.ok.mlimb%40archimedes.lan1&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fas_epq%3Dreschedule%2520timeout%2520do%2520wakeup%26safe%3Doff%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8%26as_ugroup%3D*linux*%26lr%3D%26num%3D50%26hl%3Den

I don't think I have a broken disk change line, but it couldn't hurt
to give it a shot.

> Other than that, i'd say that the controller might be dead.  Sorry.

Things break. Alas.

Kurt
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