Dear Kernel People, Recently I experienced a dos formatted floppy which, after mounting it vfat and issuing the df command produced the kernel messages below. The original part is several hundreds line long. The message stream persisted after a shutdown. If one waits long enough, it will stop. I consider this behavior a bug. It appeared in 2.2.14-5.0 (RH6.2), 2.2.16, 2.2.18 and 2.4.1 kernels (all from kernel.org). The mount, unmount and ls commands worked fine. [ ... deleted repeated lines, during normal system operation Feb 13 15:47:37 gaudi kernel: floppy0: sector not found: track 0, head 0, sector 5, size 2 Feb 13 15:47:37 gaudi kernel: floppy0: sector not found: track 0, head 0, sector 5, size 2 Feb 13 15:47:37 gaudi kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 4 Feb 13 15:47:37 gaudi kernel: bread in fat_access failed Feb 13 15:47:38 gaudi kernel: floppy0: sector not found: track 0, head 0, sector 5, size 2 Feb 13 15:47:38 gaudi kernel: floppy0: sector not found: track 0, head 0, sector 5, size 2 Feb 13 15:47:38 gaudi kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 4 Feb 13 15:47:38 gaudi kernel: bread in fat_access failed Feb 13 15:47:38 gaudi kernel: floppy0: sector not found: track 0, head 0, sector 5, size 2 Feb 13 15:47:39 gaudi kernel: floppy0: sector not found: track 0, head 0, sector 5, size 2 Feb 13 15:47:39 gaudi kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 4 Feb 13 15:47:39 gaudi kernel: bread in fat_access failed ... and now we issue a shutdown ... Feb 13 15:47:39 gaudi PAM_pwdb[685]: (xdm) session closed for user hp Feb 13 15:47:39 gaudi gnome-name-server[1177]: input condition is: 0x10, exiting Feb 13 15:47:39 gaudi kernel: floppy0: sector not found: track 0, head 0, sector 5, size 2 Feb 13 15:47:39 gaudi kernel: floppy0: sector not found: track 0, head 0, sector 5, size 2 Feb 13 15:47:39 gaudi kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 4 Feb 13 15:47:39 gaudi kernel: bread in fat_access failed Feb 13 15:47:40 gaudi kernel: floppy0: sector not found: track 0, head 0, sector 5, size 2 Feb 13 15:47:40 gaudi kernel: floppy0: sector not found: track 0, head 0, sector 5, size 2 Feb 13 15:47:40 gaudi kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 4 Feb 13 15:47:40 gaudi kernel: bread in fat_access failed Feb 13 15:47:41 gaudi rc: Stopping keytable succeeded Feb 13 15:47:41 gaudi kernel: floppy0: sector not found: track 0, head 0, sector 5, size 2 Feb 13 15:47:41 gaudi Font Server[627]: terminating Feb 13 15:47:41 gaudi kernel: floppy0: sector not found: track 0, head 0, sector 5, size 2 Feb 13 15:47:41 gaudi kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 4 Feb 13 15:47:41 gaudi kernel: bread in fat_access failed Feb 13 15:47:42 gaudi kernel: floppy0: sector not found: track 0, head 0, sector 5, size 2 Feb 13 15:47:42 gaudi kernel: floppy0: sector not found: track 0, head 0, sector 5, size 2 Feb 13 15:47:42 gaudi kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 4 Feb 13 15:47:42 gaudi kernel: bread in fat_access failed ... ] deleted repeated lines, during and after shutdown The mdir output is: plain_io: Input/output error Error reading fat number 0 and proceeds with the normally expected dir listing. The messages file contains then just two of the above blocks and not this almost never ending junk. I think if the fourth or so read attempt on the FAT is unsuccesfull the kernel should proceed to the alternate FAT, as the mtools obviously do. With best regards, Herbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
