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On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 03:18:03PM +0100, Måns Rullgård wrote: > Dale Mellor <dale@dmellor.dabsol.co.uk> writes: > > > 1. Floppy motor spins when floppy module not installed. > > It's a known problem. Some broken BIOSes don't turn off the motor > after probing for a disk. One solution is to change the boot priority > in the BIOS settings so the hard disk is tried before floppy. If you > ever need to boot from a floppy, you can change it back. > The kernel stops the spinning floppy _if_ you gives it a driver for the floppy hardware. This is not a problem at all, considering that linux comes with such a driver. Compile it in, or arranger for the module to be loaded at boot time. You may of course arrange to unload it a little later if you want to save the memory. Helge Hafting - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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