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SubjectRe: Unnecessary seeks on mounted floppies?
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> Is there anyone out there who can explain to me why Linux frequently seeks
> to track 0 when reading from mounted floppies?

One reason is if your floppy drive is crap or poorly aligned. The head gets
tracked back to track 0 to find out where its drifted to.

Alan


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