From: Helge Hafting <helgehaf@aitel.hist.no>
To: "Måns Rullgård" <mru@kth.se>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: floppy motor spins when floppy module not installed
Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2003 14:18:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031213131836.GB11073@hh.idb.hist.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yw1xd6auyvac.fsf@kth.se>
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.
Helge Hafting
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-13 13:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-12 13:57 Dale Mellor
2003-12-12 14:18 ` Måns Rullgård
2003-12-12 15:04 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-12-12 15:11 ` Måns Rullgård
2003-12-12 15:20 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-12-12 15:33 ` Måns Rullgård
2003-12-12 16:05 ` Petr Vandrovec
2003-12-12 16:27 ` Måns Rullgård
2003-12-12 16:41 ` Petr Vandrovec
2003-12-12 16:00 ` Matthew Kirkwood
2003-12-12 19:28 ` John Bradford
2003-12-12 19:47 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-12-13 6:18 ` Joshua Schmidlkofer
2003-12-15 14:37 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-12-13 10:40 ` John Bradford
2003-12-15 14:50 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-12-15 20:24 ` John Bradford
2003-12-13 13:18 ` Helge Hafting [this message]
2003-12-13 16:42 ` Joshua Schmidlkofer
2003-12-12 14:59 ` Richard B. Johnson
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