12 Dec
2017
12 Dec
'17
3:18 p.m.
On Tuesday 2017-12-12 22:06, Dave Howorth wrote:
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2017 22:06:05
From: Dave Howorth <dave(a)howorth.org.uk>
To: opensuse(a)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 <mail(a)paul-neuwirth.nl> wrote:
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.
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?
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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