From: Emmanuel Fleury <fleury@cs.auc.dk>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Floppy disk working constantly
Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2003 16:55:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1065192909.551.5.camel@rade7.s.cs.auc.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0310030909040.12482@chaos>
On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 15:14, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
>
> What are you using as a boot loader?
LILO.
> This may be a problem with
> the boot loader not turning off the floppy drive motor before
> it transfers control to Linux. With no built-in floppy driver,
> the motor would never turn off. With quick boot hard-disks,
> the floppy motor may still be ON from the initial BIOS access.
>
> Just for kicks, change the order of boot devices in your
> BIOS so that the floppy is never accessed during boot. This
> should verify the problem.
That's it !
I try several time with and without the [boot floppy] option enabled in
the BIOS. Each time the [boot floppy] option was on, I got the floppy
driver to spin on endlessly.
Regards
--
Emmanuel
There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want.
-- Calvin & Hobbes (Bill Waterson)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-03 14:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-03 13:01 Emmanuel Fleury
2003-10-03 13:14 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-10-03 14:55 ` Emmanuel Fleury [this message]
2003-10-05 17:42 ` Floppy disk working constantly [PATCH] Emmanuel Fleury
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