floppy support

[Tomasz Torcz]

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 04:25:18PM -0400, Przemek Klosowski wrote:
> On 08/30/2011 03:55 PM, Chris Adams wrote:
> 
> > How many systems are there that "hang forever" when the floppy module is
> > loaded?  I have never seen that happen, on systems with or without
> > floppy drives, yet you seem to be saying it happens on vast numbers of
> > them (99.9% in an earlier message).
> 
> It's not really 'forever', it just seems like 'forever'---remember those 
> sounds that go 'bzzzzzzut.... bzzzzzzzut... bzzzzzzut...' when the 
> floppy drive does a head seek during floppy controller init at boot.


  No, it really takes 30÷45 seconds before floppy module timeouts after
access to /dev/fd0.  Seems like eternity, especially if you have
no other output on screen during this time.

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