peter b [2010-11-26 2:44 -0000]: > - the BIOS which is written in assembler (the fastest) detects the > floppy presence in fractions of a second.
Please see above. In the problematic case, the linux kernel and the BIOS detect the floppy *controller*, and thus think that a floppy is present. This seems to be the case with a lot of motherboards, which have a floppy controller, but no drive attached to it. Then, if you try to speak to the floppy through the controller, you get the long timeouts. > - the second thought was - how comes that the proprietary os manages to > get this type of device recognised if present and render it fully > operational without this 20 sec delays ? I saw it myself on a friend's > pc that uses win - the floppy device detection was almost as fast as the > BIOS detection. If there is an actual floppy drive, there is no problem. Martin -- Martin Pitt | http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Developer (www.debian.org) -- Clicking on floppy gives "no device media found" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/441835 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Registry Administrators, which is the registrant for udev. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~registry Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~registry More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
