-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday, 2017-12-15 at 17:39 -0000, Paul Groves wrote:
I have one of these; https://youtu.be/M8qk1WCbvag
Hum.
It works great and I can read and write my 1.44MB 1MB and 720k floppies.
But on linux, the floppy drive is continuously trying to read all the time making annoying tick, tick, tick sounds. So I have to leave a disk in all the time.
On windows however it works flawlessly. So there is a big in linux of course.
Now the floppy drive is detected as /dev/sdc could this be an indication of the problem?
Although when I use an el-cheapo external USB drive the drive works fine. (And is also /dev/sdc).
I notice that when booting up, the drive is fine in the BIOS and also in grub. As soon as the kernel is loaded the problem starts. Perhaps it is the floppy module not loaded or missing?
Can anyone explain?
To me it looks like some software trying to read it many times, not the kernel. Try using another desktop, even text mode, to diagnose. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from openSUSE 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlo0FRUACgkQtTMYHG2NR9XKxwCeNPozkjToe2/O2B5DA+p6fFWp QmgAnibhEE2PJ6DS2gjzD5kcRB6Rip7g =8JJ+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org