I don't know if what I will say is orthogonal to the discussion that you're having, but I noticed one thing: when using a 2.6 kernel (2.6.11 vanilla here), I can't format a floppy with, say, superformat (from the fdutils package).
After I try to use superformat with /dev/fd0, I get messages telling me that the device is busy and I can't do anything involving the drive anymore. There are also some messages that I can't really remember right now telling something about a bad ioctl being used (or returning an error). (I'm not with the powermac right here to tell you the exact messages). I am, obviously, using the swim3 driver, but one thing that I think is strange is that I can use commands like "dd if=/dev/fd0 of=image.bin" without any problems (provided, again, that I don't use superformat -- after using it, the drive is dead until the next reboot). So, would this mean that the swim driver has a problem and/or fragility? Thanks for any help, Rogério. P.S.: The 2.6 kernels, even though compiled with very few options (almost the strict minimum for it to work) and "optimized for size", are quite larger than an equivalently compiled 2.4 kernel... Perhaps GCC isn't that good (as it is, say, with x86) when compiling optimized for size on PPC? -- Learn to quote e-mails decently at: http://pub.tsn.dk/how-to-quote.php http://learn.to/quote http://www.xs4all.nl/~sbpoley/toppost.htm -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
