Bug#327115: Floppy unexpected interrupt
On Wed, 07 Sep 2005, Luca PERSICO wrote:
> I tried out your distro on a laptop PC (Pentium III 900MHz); it is not a
> brand PC, it is a Nev@ada PC, thus it is quite easy for me to have
> trouble installing GNU/Linux on it, so that till now the only distro
> that has been acceptable has been Slackware (both 9.1 and 10.1).
> Recently, I decided to try also Debian because it appeared very
> impressive (in the positive sense) to me, but I had a bad surprise which
> I didn't find with Slackware instead: when I mount the floppy drive I
> continuously receive the message: "Floppy unexpected interrupt" together
> with some other strange indication like "sensei repl[80]". To try to
> solve this problem I put the parameter "floppy=thinkpad" (even if it is
> not a thinkpad) in the kernel options in GRUB, but without any success;
> after that I tried the kernel parameter
> "floppy=no_unexpected_interrupts" and even then I had no result at all.
> Please, can you suggest to me a solution of any kind to this problem?
> Take note that the kernel installed is the one obtained specifying
> linux26 at the installation boot prompt; the problem arised also with
> linux24 choosen at boot time at the beginning of the installation.
>
> Thank you a lot and many congratulation: Debian is really great!
>
> Luca "Killer Fish" PERSICO
i'm not aware that slackware patches its kernel,
thout it was upstream. nor am i aware of any debian patch
concerning the floppy driver.
could you please post dmesg from both the 2.6 and 2.4 kernels after boot.
thanks
--
maks
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