floppy drive freezes my system

[Willem van der Walt<willem@top.health.gov.za>]

You might try giving the kernel parameter pci=bios at boot time in your 
lilo.conf or grub.conf.
It according to my understanding tells linux to use settings as provided 
by the bios and not try to determine the settings via linux's own means.
HTH


On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, JARDINE, Jeff wrote:

> Hi there,
> 	I've been using Linux for five years (but still by NO means an
> expert), and have almost always been able to solve my own problems by
> looking around the net. However, I haven't found any reference to this
> problem anywhere.
> 	My father in law built us a new system a couple of months ago with
> Windows XP on one partition and Red Hat 9 (kernel is 2.4.8, I believe) on
> another.  The floppy drive works fine under Windoze but, embarrassingly,
> when I try to read/write to floppy drive from Linux the system freezes -
> hard.
>
> 	I'll mount the drive with a floppy known to be OK on other Linux
> boxes:
>
> mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
>
> 	Then I try to read or write to it.  The light on the floppy drive
> remains on, and the system completely freezes up and requires a hard boot.
>
> 	I can format a floppy but can't read/write the same floppy.  I've
> also tried the msdos filesystem with the same result:
>
> mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
>
> 	My fstab looks like this:
>
> /dev/fd0      /mnt/floppy       auto      user,noauto   0 0
>
> 	Any ideas??
>
> 	Jeff J
>
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