It seems as if recent kernles don't cache floppy reads. Is this
intentional? I haven't tried it for a long time, so I have no idea
when this behavior changed.
Miklos
bcica:~> time dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/dev/null bs=2048 count=100
100+0 records in
100+0 records out
0.000u 0.000s 0:07.59 0.0% 0+0k 0+0io 97pf+0w
bcica:~> time dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/dev/null bs=2048 count=100
100+0 records in
100+0 records out
0.000u 0.010s 0:07.10 0.1% 0+0k 0+0io 97pf+0w
bcica:~> time dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/dev/null bs=2048 count=100
100+0 records in
100+0 records out
0.000u 0.020s 0:07.21 0.2% 0+0k 0+0io 97pf+0w