Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 1 Jun 2008 21:00:11 +0200 (CEST) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: floppy question of the hour |
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On Wednesday 2008-05-28 00:26, Gene Heskett wrote: >On Tuesday 27 May 2008, Phillip Susi wrote: >>Gene Heskett wrote: > >Also, does anyone know how long after a floppy is inserted before it is >recognized? From observation today, it appears to be something in the 5 minute >territory before a getfdprm returns data instead of "/dev/fd0: no such device".
I have a SONY USB floppy drive which used to get read within 2s after inserting a new floppy. Which means it somehow signalled the host, probably through an USB command.
Just as I tried again now (with 2.6.23.17), this does not happen anymore so I suspect udev or the kernel changed in some way.
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