[Xen-users] floppy problems in dom0

[roman@xxxxxxxxx (Roman Hodek)]

Hi!

I'm using xen-2.0.6 with a 2.6.11.10 kernel in dom0 on a dual Athon
machine. In dom0, I have problems accessing the floppy drive. Most
time sectors can be read, but very slowly due to timeouts etc., and
sometimes a sector fails alltogether.

First I thought that the disk itself is damaged, but a few tries later
(several disks in 3 floppy drives) I realized that the dom0 kernel
must have some kind of problem... All the disks work in all drives
except in the one in the Xen machine. I see the following kernel
messages in my syslog:

  floppy0: unexpected interrupt 
  floppy0: sensei repl[0]=80 
  floppy0: -- FDC reply errorfloppy0: unexpected interrupt 
  floppy0: sensei repl[0]=80 
  floppy0: -- FDC reply errorfloppy0: unexpected interrupt 
  floppy0: sensei repl[0]=80 
  floppy0: -- FDC reply errorfloppy0: unexpected interrupt 
  floppy0: sensei repl[0]=80 
  
  floppy driver state
  -------------------
  now=5458913 last interrupt=5458633 diff=280 last called handler=00000000
  timeout_message=floppy start
  last output bytes:
  e6 80 5458595
  0 90 5458595
  1b 90 5458595
  0 90 5458595
  a 90 5458595
  2 90 5458595
  12 90 5458595
  1b 90 5458595
  ff 90 5458595
  e6 80 5458613
  0 90 5458613
  1b 90 5458613
  0 90 5458613
  c 90 5458613
  2 90 5458613
  12 90 5458613
  1b 90 5458613
  ff 90 5458613
  8 90 5458633
  8 80 5458633
  last result at 5458633
  last redo_fd_request at 5458613
  80 
  status=80
  fdc_busy=1
  cont=c02c6d44
  current_req=cb917838
  command_status=-1
  
  floppy0: floppy timeout called
  end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 983

(sector numbers vary, of course)

Looks somehow like is has to do with interrupts, right? :) I also
wonder that the floppy irq has a really high counter in
/proc/interrupts. It increments by 17055 just by mounting the
disk (ext2 filesystem). Isn't that much too much?

Anybody know this effect or have a solution?

Roman
(please Cc replies to me, I'm not subscribed to the list)

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