On Tue, 2002-10-01 at 11:28, Jochen Voss wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I need some help with bug #130805. The bug submitter's
> Sony Vaio laptop crashed on some command. Details are at
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/130805
>
> As I do not own such a machine I cannot do much about this.
> So my request is: could anybody with a Sony Vaio laptop try
> the following:
>
> 1) Install the fdutils package
> 2) Remove the floppy drive
> 3) Prepare for a possible crash (save all open
> files, execute 'sync', ...)
> 4) Run the command "/usr/sbin/MAKEFLOPPIES -g"
I don't have a USB floppy drive so I can't test this, but I know that
some recent Vaio models have problems with USB causing hard locks, if
ACPI is not patched via http://acpi.sf.net and a recent (2.4.19) kernel
is not being used. Technically it's a USB problem I think, but it seems
to only come up regularly on Vaio systems. I didn't dig into it too much
because the ACPI patch fixed it for me.
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