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On 2012-04-18T15:59:18+00:00 ticmanis wrote:
The floppy disk drive's motor keeps running forever as soon as the
floppy is accessed (say, by doing a "mdir a:" or a "fdformat /dev/fd0",
or a "dd if=/dev/fd0 ..." ), and the floppy drive's activity LED stays
lit. Only when the disk is removed from the drive, the drive stops. I'd
expect the drive to stop spinning a few seconds after the access is
finished.
The accessing command returns normally and I can still access the drive
normally by giving another command afterwards. The problem is purely the
failure to deselect the drive and/or turn off the drive motor line.
This is a standard IRQ6/DMA2 floppy drive connected directly to the
motherboard's built in FDC with a standard 34-wire ribbon floppy cable.
The bug happens both with a normal 1.44MB drive and with a 1.2MB (5.25
inch) drive. The drives do not exhibit this problem in DOS or Windows
running on the same physical hardware. My motherboard is an ASUS P5B, if
that is important. There was no second drive connected as my motherboard
supports only one floppy.
The bug first occured after upgrading my Ubuntu system to Ubuntu Precise
(12.04) Beta 2, but I have tested with a mainline 3.4.0-rc3 kernel
(though with Ubuntu specific configuration) which I got from here:
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.4-rc3-precise/
The specific package I tested with was called "linux-
image-3.4.0-030400rc3-generic_3.4.0-030400rc3.201204152235_amd64.deb"
The bug was still there in that mainline kernel.
I hope this is the right subsystem for this bug, if not please feel free
to move it and/or to point out where it should go. This is the first
kernel bug I'm reporting upstream so please excuse me if some vital
information is missing. Please just tell me what more info you need.
Thanks!
My original Ubuntu bug report can be found here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/983681
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On 2012-04-18T16:02:38+00:00 ticmanis wrote:
The kernel where I first noticed the bug is the Ubuntu specific 3.2.0.
Currently "uname -a" gives "Linux linards 3.2.0-23-generic #36-Ubuntu
SMP Tue Apr 10 20:39:51 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux".
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On 2017-03-06T20:29:51+00:00 szg wrote:
Please try to reproduce this bug with latest kernel image.
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On 2019-02-14T09:29:09+00:00 corti wrote:
The problem still persists. I've tried kernel 4.19.16 from Debian testing. The
bug somehow lies in the logic for detecting a disk change. If I access the
floppy the motor won't turn off. But if I force a disk change (ejecting and
immediately inserting the floppy again) the motor turns off within about two
seconds - as it should.
Also, if I practically disable the disk change checks with "floppycontrol -C
2147483647" the motor turns off normally. So I suspect that frequently checking
for disk changes without the floppy being changed keeps the motor in its
current state.
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On 2019-02-14T10:52:18+00:00 corti wrote:
Created attachment 281133
kernel messages
The following kernel messages are repeated every two seconds (after
which the motor should be turned off) when loading the module with
floppy=debug
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Title:
Floppy keeps running forever after every access
Status in Linux:
Confirmed
Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
Triaged
Bug description:
In Ubuntu Precise, the floppy disk drive's motor keeps running forever
as soon as the floppy is accessed (say, by doing a "mdir a:" or a
"fdformat /dev/fd0", or a "dd if=/dev/fd0 ..." ), and the floppy
drive's activity LED stays lit. Only when the disk is removed from the
drive, the drive stops. I'd expect the drive to stop spinning a few
seconds after the access is finished.
The accessing command returns normally and I can still acce