Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752510AbYFATAY (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Jun 2008 15:00:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751237AbYFATAN (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Jun 2008 15:00:13 -0400 Received: from sovereign.computergmbh.de ([85.214.69.204]:33441 "EHLO sovereign.computergmbh.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750985AbYFATAM (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Jun 2008 15:00:12 -0400 Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2008 21:00:11 +0200 (CEST) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Gene Heskett cc: Phillip Susi , Stefan Richter , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jens Axboe Subject: Re: floppy question of the hour In-Reply-To: <200805271826.18320.gene.heskett@gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <200805232114.20937.gene.heskett@gmail.com> <200805240852.58268.gene.heskett@gmail.com> <483C81DE.8060002@cfl.rr.com> <200805271826.18320.gene.heskett@gmail.com> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (LNX 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 901 Lines: 20 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. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/