Hello fellow users! I've a rather general technical question. Floppy drives have been around for who knows how much time. But even more, it seems that they originated not from multitasking OSs like UN*X and Linux, but from Macs and PCs running DOS. Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems that whenever I mount a floppy, the whole Linux multitsking stops. It is as though the mounting of a floppy is an uninteruptable process. Maybe HDDs are relatively fast, but I never notice such problems when mounting them. What is the reason for the delay in the system when floppies are mounted? why it doesn't effect HDDs, they are also physical drives? Buffer problems?
TIA. sasha. _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com