Bug 29538

Summary:	Mounting /dev/fd0 never completes
Product:	Base System	Reporter:	jmegias <jmegias>
Component:	kern	Assignee:	Joerg Wunsch <joerg>
Status:	Closed FIXED
Severity:	Affects Only Me
Priority:	Normal
Version:	Unspecified
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description jmegias 2001-08-08 09:50:01 UTC

When mounting floppy with the command mount /dev/fd0 /mnt never completes and it observing the following messages:
Aug  8 10:22:25 tijeras /kernel: fdc0: direction bit not set
Aug  8 10:22:25 tijeras /kernel: fdc0: cmd 3 failed at out byte 1 of 3
Aug  8 10:22:25 tijeras /kernel: fdc0: direction bit not set
Aug  8 10:22:25 tijeras /kernel: fdc0: cmd 13 failed at out byte 1 of 4
Aug  8 10:22:25 tijeras /kernel: fdc0: Re-enable FIFO failed
Aug  8 10:22:25 tijeras /kernel: fdc0: direction bit not set
......

How-To-Repeat: Reboot the system and afterwards trying to mounting the floppy with the command mount /dev/fd0 /mnt.

Comment 1 Joerg Wunsch freebsd_committer

2001-08-13 12:30:58 UTC

Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-bugs->joerg


I might have a look into this, assuming it's actually a problem of 
the floppy driver.

Comment 2 Joerg Wunsch freebsd_committer

2001-12-25 21:24:50 UTC

State Changed
From-To: open->feedback

I have never seen such behaviour except for non-functional 
hardware (controller doesn't respond for some reason). 

Can you provide some more details about your hardware 
(controller type -- please use the exact chip type as seen 
on the mainboard, not the bogus one the FreeBSD driver is 
announcing at boot time, attached drives, does it happen 
with a medium in the drive the same way as without a medium?).

Comment 3 mikan 2002-01-25 13:20:05 UTC

Hi!

We have the same problem here. 

We have some Compaq Proliant servers running FreeBSD 4.3 and 4.4 and all of
them have this problem. As fast as we try to access the floppy drive (with
or without floppy in it). I have tried to disable fifo in the fdc driver
(Options=0x4) and I still got the same problem.

I haven't got the time yet to look at the motherboard, but I have the
following hardware:
Compaq Proliant 1600 (x3)
Compaq Proliant ML370 (x2)

I can boot from the installation floppy on these and mount mfs root, but I
can't load fixit floppy. 

Sincerely
Mikael 
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Comment 4 Joerg Wunsch 2006-03-28 06:16:07 UTC

This is a very old bug report, and nobody ever gave me the desired
feedback (more details).  Unless there's evidence this problem still
persists with recent versions of FreeBSD, I'll close it by 2006-04-15.

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Comment 5 Joerg Wunsch freebsd_committer

2006-03-28 10:53:01 UTC

State Changed
From-To: feedback->closed

Originator confirms this to be working now.