Re: Floppy disk working constantly

[Emmanuel Fleury]

On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 15:14, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> 
> What are you using as a boot loader? 

LILO.

> This may be a problem with
> the boot loader not turning off the floppy drive motor before
> it transfers control to Linux. With no built-in floppy driver,
> the motor would never turn off. With quick boot hard-disks,
> the floppy motor may still be ON from the initial BIOS access.
> 
> Just for kicks, change the order of boot devices in your
> BIOS so that the floppy is never accessed during boot. This
> should verify the problem.

That's it !

I try several time with and without the [boot floppy] option enabled in
the BIOS. Each time the [boot floppy] option was on, I got the floppy
driver to spin on endlessly.

Regards
-- 
Emmanuel

There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want.
  -- Calvin & Hobbes (Bill Waterson)

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