Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4570 mails)

[BandiPat <penguin0601@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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
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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.

Lee