Re: PROBLEM: floppy motor spins when floppy module not installed

[Joshua Schmidlkofer <kernel@pacrimopen.com>]

On Sat, 2003-12-13 at 05:18, Helge Hafting wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 03:18:03PM +0100, Måns Rullgård wrote:
> > Dale Mellor <dale@dmellor.dabsol.co.uk> writes:
> > 
> > > 1. Floppy motor spins when floppy module not installed.
> > 
> > It's a known problem.  Some broken BIOSes don't turn off the motor
> > after probing for a disk.  One solution is to change the boot priority
> > in the BIOS settings so the hard disk is tried before floppy.  If you
> > ever need to boot from a floppy, you can change it back.
> > 
> The kernel stops the spinning floppy _if_ you gives it a driver
> for the floppy hardware.
> 
> This is not a problem at all, considering that linux comes
> with such a driver.
> 
> Compile it in, or arranger for the module to be loaded at
> boot time.  You may of course arrange to unload it a little
> later if you want to save the memory.

This seems like the correct solution to me.

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