> >
> > I'm using RTAI (1.3) instead of RTL, and there I had no problems
> > using my floppy drive.
> >
if you access the floppy during a realtime task running do you get an
increased scheduling jitter ?
> > Investigating the system, I realized, that the interrupt latency time of
> > my real-time task increased a lot (>10us) doing floppy read/write at
> > the same time. So I think, it's a good advice *not* to use your floppy
> > when a real-time task is running.
> > Perhaps Victor and his RTL-crew knew about this problem and so
> > they simple block up floppy access during real-time operations.
>
> ....or rather intentionally compiled the driver as a module...?
>
It would be a good idea not to use the floppy drive during rt-operations
running since the floppy-drive can cause substantial delays . But there is
nothing in the RTLinux kernels/patches preventing you from using your floppy.
hofrat
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