Floppy drive on UX2

["Munagala V. S. Ramanath" <ram netcom com>]

Hi,

I'm unable to use the floppy on my UX2 (Ruffian) system running RH5.2
(with the 2.0.34 kernel); the symptoms are described below.

Does this mean my drive is kaput or is this a known problem perhaps
fixed in later kernels ? Thanks.

Ram

After "setfdprm -p /dev/fd0 1440/1440", an attempt to format with:

	fdformat /dev/fd0

gives this:
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Double-sided, 80 tracks, 18 sec/track. Total capacity 1440 kB.
Formatting ... 
ioctl(FDFMTTRK): Input/output error
------------------------------------------------------------------------

Any attempt to write to the floppy, e.g.

	tar cvf /dev/fd0 ...

results in vast numbers of messages like thes in /var/log/messages:

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Feb 26 09:05:40 rock kernel: floppy driver state
Feb 26 09:05:40 rock kernel: -------------------
Feb 26 09:05:40 rock kernel: now=2813911383 last interrupt=-1481058985 last called handler=fffffc00003b1130
Feb 26 09:05:40 rock kernel: timeout_message=lock fdc
Feb 26 09:05:40 rock kernel: last output bytes:
Feb 26 09:05:40 rock kernel:  0 90 2756443759
Feb 26 09:05:40 rock kernel: 13 90 2756443759
Feb 26 09:05:40 rock kernel:  0 90 2756443759
Feb 26 09:05:40 rock kernel: 1a 90 2756443759
Feb 26 09:05:40 rock kernel:  0 90 2756443759
Feb 26 09:05:40 rock kernel:  3 90 2756443759
Feb 26 09:05:40 rock kernel: d1 90 2756443759
Feb 26 09:05:40 rock kernel: 10 90 2756443759
Feb 26 09:05:40 rock kernel:  7 80 2756443759
Feb 26 09:05:40 rock kernel:  0 90 2756443759
Feb 26 09:05:40 rock kernel:  8 81 2756443765
Feb 26 09:05:40 rock kernel:  f 80 2756443765
Feb 26 09:05:40 rock kernel:  0 90 2756443765
Feb 26 09:05:40 rock kernel:  2 90 2756443765
Feb 26 09:05:40 rock kernel:  8 81 2756443773
Feb 26 09:05:40 rock kernel:  8 80 2813908311
Feb 26 09:05:40 rock kernel:  8 90 2813908311
Feb 26 09:05:40 rock last message repeated 3 times
Feb 26 09:05:40 rock kernel: last result at -1481058985
Feb 26 09:05:40 rock kernel: last redo_fd_request at -1481058987
Feb 26 09:05:40 rock kernel:
Feb 26 09:05:40 rock kernel: status=80
Feb 26 09:05:40 rock kernel: fdc_busy=1
Feb 26 09:05:40 rock kernel: fd_timer.function=fffffc00003b1b18
Feb 26 09:05:40 rock kernel: cont=fffffc0000477030
Feb 26 09:05:40 rock kernel: CURRENT=0000000000000000
Feb 26 09:05:40 rock kernel: command_status=-1
Feb 26 09:05:40 rock kernel:
Feb 26 09:05:40 rock kernel: floppy0: floppy timeout called
Feb 26 09:06:39 rock kernel:
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