Re: 10.1 - floppy is a slug
- From: Michael Soibelman <not-here@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2006 04:22:36 GMT
yourname wrote:
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.
Well it isn't Chinese ! If you were writing a bootable cd that's how you do
it in Linux. Since you didn't say what the floppy was used for I was
guessing. Anyway, a full 1.44MB floppy should not take more than 2
minutes tops !! So if it takes more than that something isn't right...in
any language. I'm serious when I say floppy disks are VERY unreliable. If
you're just copying 256k it shouldn't take more than 30 seconds. Why are
you using floppy's ??? They're so..80's.
.
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