Bug#548434: [Fdutils] Cannot format floppies under kernel 2.6.*?

2009-12-15 Thread A.E.Lawrence
Alain Knaff wrote: ael wrote: Is that what you wanted? ael Yes. All sectors are there, ... so I wonder why you are getting errors. So, next round of tests: trying to read these sectors: fdrawcmd recalibrate 0 fdrawcmd read 0 0 0 1 2 18 1 1 length=18432 >/dev/null # fdrawcmd recalibrat

Bug#548434: Additional info: CRC errors in /var/log/messages, dd also failing

2009-09-27 Thread A.E.Lawrence
I have now discovered that even commands like dd if=/dev/fd0 of=floppy.img also fail with crc errors. All these things work fine on the old box under kernel 2.4.37. So it looks as if there is something fundamentally wrong with low level floppy access. Yet filesystem access is ok which doesn't