Re: floppy question of the hour

[Jan Engelhardt]

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.
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