Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4570 mails)

[James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

BandiPat wrote:
> On Tuesday 01 November 2005 04:21 pm, pelibali wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have three comps with SUSE 10.0 installed. All of them desktops and
>> all of them can copy a 500kb file in about _20 minutes_ to a floppy.
>> No joke, but seemingly "common feature". Reading floppies is no
>> problem at all, only writing to a floppy is like a nightmare.
>> Anyone else seeing the same strange behaviour?! All of the systems
>> fully updated and the automounter is active for floppy/CD.
>> The corresponding fstab things are defaults from the installations
>> themselves...
>>
>> Thanks,
>>   Pelibali
> ***********
> 
> Pelibali,
> Mine doesn't take quite 20 minutes, but it is a very long time to copy 
> any files to the floppy with SuSE 10!  It seems to read as quickly as 
> ever, but writing to a floppy is something SuSe has managed to mangle 
> quite badly in their efforts!
> 
> What's going on SuSE guys?
> 
> Granted not many people use floppies these days, heck, not many 
> computers even come with one anymore!  I still have need of one, as I'm 
> sure others do, so can someone help in fixing this problem?  I've tried 
> changing from the subfs to standard without making any difference.

Are those with USB attached floppies?  There's a severe bug, that causes
extremely slow writes, to USB drives.