Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: PROBLEM: floppy motor spins when floppy module not installed | From | Joshua Schmidlkofer <> | Date | Sat, 13 Dec 2003 08:42:05 -0800 |
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On Sat, 2003-12-13 at 05:18, Helge Hafting wrote: > 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.
This seems like the correct solution to me.
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