Re: 10.1 - floppy is a slug

I'm not very good with linux. I was running Suse 9.0 for the last year. It never made any difference if I formatted the floppy in Windows or Suse. I always format it as a DOS disk. But now, in Suse 10.1, the floppy behaves very different. I just copy files in Konqueror the way I always did. I opened KSysGuard to watch the CPU during this process. My mistake on the initial post. The CPU climbed to 100% during the copy process, then settled back down after it was done. If this were a windows issue, I would guess that the DMA was not being used.

You asked "Did you use the 'dd if=your-file-here of=/dev/fd0 bs=?
(64,128,256...etc)". You might as well speak Chinese.
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