In message <20040921123353.41103.qmail_at_web14823.mail.yahoo.com>, Rostislav Kras ny writes: >> Any time 'fdcontrol [anyflag] /dev/fd0' is running the floppy drive >> is activated, i.e. the LED of the drive is alight and its heads are >> moving for some period of time. > >This is on 5.3-BETA5. On 5.3-BETA4 the the floppy drive isn't activated >during fdcontrol(8) run. In order to properly detect if there is floppy in the drive it is necessary to step the head at least one cylinder. Some of the more energy-concious floppy drives powers the step-motor for the heads from the same supply as the spindle motor, and therefore the motor has to be started before the step operation happens. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk_at_FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.Received on Tue Sep 21 2004 - 10:39:08 UTC
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