Can anyone offer some advice...

I have installed LM8.0 on my Sony Vaio laptop. It is one of those where the 
parallel port may be used either for a printer, or for an external floppy 
drive.

The install went perfectly, and it all works including the floppy drive.

Only problem is that if I do not have the floppy drive plugged into the 
parallel port, then shutting down takes an age.

Is there a way to easily let Linux know whether or not the floppy is fitted?
I guess I could do it in the bios, but I would rather not have to fiddle with 
Bios every time I want to use a floppy.


TIA

Derek

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