On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 04:25:18PM -0400, Przemek Klosowski wrote: > On 08/30/2011 03:55 PM, Chris Adams wrote: > > > How many systems are there that "hang forever" when the floppy module is > > loaded? I have never seen that happen, on systems with or without > > floppy drives, yet you seem to be saying it happens on vast numbers of > > them (99.9% in an earlier message). > > It's not really 'forever', it just seems like 'forever'---remember those > sounds that go 'bzzzzzzut.... bzzzzzzzut... bzzzzzzut...' when the > floppy drive does a head seek during floppy controller init at boot.
No, it really takes 30÷45 seconds before floppy module timeouts after access to /dev/fd0. Seems like eternity, especially if you have no other output on screen during this time. -- Tomasz Torcz "God, root, what's the difference?" xmpp: zdzich...@chrome.pl "God is more forgiving." -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
