On Tuesday 2017-12-12 22:06, Dave Howorth wrote:
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2017 22:06:05 From: Dave Howorth
To: opensuse@opensuse.org Subject: Re: [opensuse] continous access on/spinning up of floppy drive On Tue, 12 Dec 2017 20:33:34 +0100 (CET) Paul Neuwirth
wrote: It is complete same behaviour also on USB floppy disk drives (those were the ones, which didn't survive. The SCSI floppy disk drive does not spin up without disk inserted. By the way I am looking for a cheap 5.25" SCSI FDD.. they exist, but are traded for horrific prices.. ;) without ISA and FDC I do not know how to get my old drives working..
I'm confused. I thought it was SCSI drives that were failing? Now they're working but USB drives are failing? Which is it? maybe, we got a bit off the topic. Problem are not non-working drives, but that udevd continuosly tries to access (spin up) drives, without disk inserted. That should'nt be so on any removable media drives. Also are some tasks slowed down, waiting for something udevd does, extreme example is calling yast bootloader.. which takes several (tens?) minutes.
The actual drives are the same regardless of the interface they are equipped with, no? So just buy any drive and fit your interface.
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