Andrew, On Saturday 29 January 2005 15:40, Andrew Williams wrote:
Randall R Schulz wrote:
Klause, Craig,
On Saturday 29 January 2005 05:08, Klaus Layer wrote:
Hi Craig,
some time ago I had the same problem. It occured after my upgrade to SUSE 9.2 which actives subfs by default. The cause was that I had a symbolic link floppy to /media/floppy in /, an entry in /etc/fstab for the floppy drive, but no floppy drive. ...
I do the same (keep a symbolic link to /media/floppy in /) and rarely have a diskette in the drive but have not experienced this symptom.
On the other hand, every time I copy (to the clipboard) in a KDE application (but not in other applications such as Mozilla or Java GUIs), the diskette drive is accessed, making a distinctive pattern of sounds.
Regards,
Klaus
Randall Schulz
Sorry, but that is *not* the same.
There is a major difference between having a floppy drive which does not contain a disc, and not having that drive at all.
Yes, I suspected you might have meant that, but it wasn't entirely clear (it's not too far-fetched to hypothesize that "in the" got lost in editing your message). But since I do so wish I could keep my diskette from activating every time I copy something to the clipboard in a native KDE application, I never pass up the opportunity to mention that odd symptom in the hopes that it will catch the eye of someone in the know who will then tell me how to prevent it from happening.
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Randall Schulz