Bug#332942: kernel-image-2.6.8-2-386: fails to insert floppy.ko claiming "io-port 0x03f2 in use"
On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 07:10:24PM +0200, Francesco Poli wrote:
> Package: kernel-image-2.6.8-2-386
> Version: 2.6.8-16
> Severity: normal
>
> I installed Debian sarge (3.1 r0) on an old Pentium machine, following the
> manual debootstrap procedure (described in the Debian sarge installation
> guide, appendix C.). I could not use debian-installer because I didn't
> have enough memory (only 16 Mibyte).
>
> Now I cannot mount floppy disks (not even as root):
>
> # mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy/
> mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device
> # ls -altrF /dev/fd0
> brw-rw---- 1 root floppy 2, 0 Feb 26 2005 /dev/fd0
> # tail -3 /var/log/kern.log
> Oct 9 16:33:55 oldbox kernel: inserting floppy driver for 2.6.8-2-386
> Oct 9 16:33:55 oldbox kernel: Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
> Oct 9 16:33:55 oldbox kernel: floppy0: Floppy io-port 0x03f2 in use
>
> But io-port 0x03f2 does not seem to be in use:
>
> # cat /proc/ioports
> 0000-001f : dma1
> 0020-0021 : pic1
> 0040-005f : timer
> 0060-006f : keyboard
> 0080-008f : dma page reg
> 00a0-00a1 : pic2
> 00c0-00df : dma2
> 00f0-00ff : fpu
> 0170-0177 : ide1
> 01f0-01f7 : ide0
> 02f8-02ff : serial
> 0376-0376 : ide1
> 03c0-03df : vga+
> 03f3-03f3 : pnp 00:07
> 03f6-03f6 : ide0
> 03f8-03ff : serial
> 04d0-04d1 : pnp 00:07
> 0cf8-0cff : PCI conf1
> f000-f00f : 0000:00:07.1
> f000-f007 : ide0
> f008-f00f : ide1
Are you sure that the drive is actually at 0x03f2?
> The error shows up even when simply trying to load floppy.ko:
>
> # lsmod | grep floppy
> # modprobe floppy
> FATAL: Error inserting floppy (/lib/modules/2.6.8-2-386/kernel/drivers/block/floppy.ko): Device or resource busy
> # tail -3 /var/log/kern.log
> Oct 9 16:41:02 oldbox kernel: inserting floppy driver for 2.6.8-2-386
> Oct 9 16:41:02 oldbox kernel: Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
> Oct 9 16:41:02 oldbox kernel: floppy0: Floppy io-port 0x03f2 in use
>
>
> Please note that:
>
> * I can mount the same floppy disk flawlessly if I boot with
> System Rescue CD (a live distro currently based on Linux 2.4.x:
> http://www.sysresccd.org/)
> * I had no difficulties in using the floppy drive when other
> distros were installed on the same machine (DamnSmallLinux
> http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/, DeLi Linux http://www.delilinux.de/)
> * I even tried booting with the floppy=thinkpad kernel parameter
> (despite this machine is not a laptop), but the error still
> showed up
> * I searched the f...ine web and found a few people that experienced
> the same problem, but most of them got no answer from the forum
> or mailing list they were writing to, while the rest of them
> got suggestions that do not seem to work (at least for me...)
>
>
> What can I do?
It seems like a fairly specialised problem, but fortunately due
to the beuaty of free software you have all the information
you need to resolve the problem yourself.
--
Horms
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