Sean Mathews writes:
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>
> Anyone notice that the floppy drive is not spinning
> down. I have tried on my 286 micro controler
> and on a normal pent pro box. Both having only
> floppy as a device no hard drive. Is this
> just a swap device issue? or did we miss a reset
> floppy command?
>
The code to spin the floppy down is there. It is done by the BIOS which is
used by the BIOS disk driver. The BIOS counts how soon to spin down the
disk user the timer IRQ0, which ELKS passes on to the BIOS every 5th
interrupt. Spinning down seems to work with some kernel builds and not
others at random. My current kernel build works fine. If you can work out
why this happens that would be great.
Al
