RE: [Xen-users] Panic in mounting a floppy (on domain0)

["Ian Pratt" <m+Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Did anybody succeed with mounting a floppy in domain0 in Xen? 
> I get  a panic when I try to do:
> mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy.

It certainly used to work. Which version of Xen is this? I'm guesing
unstable. Please can you check whether it works with 2.0-testing or
2.0.6

It's possible that your floppy controller doesn't like being forced into
PIO-only mode.

Ian
 
> I looked at the .config file of linux-2.61.12-xen0 ,and I have there: 
> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD=y ; this causes the floppy.c to be built 
> into the kernel.
> 
> (I also want to add that there is no problem of the diskette 
> itself since on the same machine with RH9 I do succeed to 
> mount and read/write files from this diskette with the same 
> "mount" command).
> 
> Regards,
> John
> 
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