Hi Bernhard, > I have discovered the following strange behavior of the floppy disk: > -accessing from hard disk to floppy (via f: a: command) takes approx. 10 sec > - then, the " dir" command takes from 1-5 minutes to list the directory > content > Also no chance to start any program from the disk. > Under Linux the behavior is normal: an "ls" give in approx 1 sec the content > of the floppy. > > My question: have some other people made a simillar experience? > The test are done with dosemu 1.2.2 and 1.3.1 > Linux System is SuSE 9.1 (kernel 2.6.5 (with some patches)),on a AMD Duron > system.
It has to do with kernel 2.6, and the way dosemu accesses the floppy. I had not used a floppy at all for 2 months or so (so I tend to forget these problems, almost forgetting that floppies still exist...) but trying it again with kernel 2.6.9 it seems the problem is still there. There's a bug in SF somewhere that tells about it. > Maybe has this something to do with the fact that the floppy is mounted via > subfs ? I don't think so. If I actually have the floppy mounted at the same time in Linux (like mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy) dosemu reads the floppy much faster. Then you need to be careful not to write to the floppy via both methods though: either dosemu or the mounted directory can be written to but not both at the same time or you'll face filesystem corruption. lredir a: linux\fs/floppy is another (safe) alternative. Bart - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-msdos" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
