Re: 10.1 - floppy is a slug

Michael Soibelman wrote:

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

Duhh - I think he knows that. Hence the reason for his post.

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.

And why are you acting like such a jerk? The original poster was not that
unclear or out of line as to warrant such rude treatment by you.
.

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