Bug#327115: Floppy unexpected interrupt

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

reassign 327115 linux-2.6
thanks

On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 09:41:46PM +0200, Luca PERSICO wrote:
> Hi Maks!
>
> I am back to you with some news, but first of all many thanks for your  
> attention.
>
> As I told you, my laptop is a Nev@da, more precisely a CLEVO 2700S with  
> a BIOS SystemSoft MobilePRO Version 1.01 - R1.14 and a Pentium III  
> Coppermine at 900MHz; it is not a recent one, but I do not think this  
> should be a problem.
>
> I receive the error message only when the floppy is mounted, the text of  
> the message is always the same:
>
> floppy0: unexpected interrupt
> floppy0: sensei repl[0]=80
>
> The message arises from now to then, sometimes very often, sometimes  
> less often, apparently without a specific reason or cause. Please would  
> you note also that I had the same behaviour on that PC even when I  
> installed Red HAT from 7.3 on and Fedora Core 1 and 3.
>
> I have also some news about Slackware. I went back to Slack 9.1 on that  
> PC, so the trials I made have been carried out with that distribution.  
> Even if I did not specify any kernel parameter for the floppy on the  
> kernel line for the boot, I am able to use it without any problem at  
> all. Nevertheless, having decided to give you also the results from  
> dmesg in Slackware, I have seen something that could be interesting for  
> you; if I give dmesg command before I mount the floppy the result is the  
> one you may see in dmesgSlackNoFD text file, if I give the same command  
> after the floppy has been mounted I obtain the textfile dmesgSlack; the  
> interesting part is the last one in this file, where it is possible to  
> see the same error message about floppy, even if this error does not  
> arise at all during the use of the PC, I mean that the only moment when  
> it arises is the execution of dmesg command; the other strange thing is  
> that if I repeat the dmesg command after I have unmounted the floppy,  
> the dmesg command continues to report the same lines with those errors.
>
> Attached to this mail you may find four files: dmesg2.4 and dmesg2.6  
> have been made with Debian and kernel 2.4 and 2.6 respectively;  
> dmesgSlack and dmesgSlackNoFD have been made with Slackware 9.1 after  
> and before the mounting of the floppy, respectively.
>
> Many Many thanks again for your attention and for your great work! Good  
> Luck!

Does this error still occur with more recent kernel versions?

Cheers,
        Moritz