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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/