peter b [2010-11-25 21:12 -0000]: > Martin, pls do not look at what follows as an intrusion into your good > efforts in resolving this issue
To the contrary -- it seems this bug needs more thinking/involvement, not less :-) > basics are still there with little changes ) ; I may be wrong in this > but pls check my thoughts out and take a look at the floppy drive/device > probing procedure code and maybe introduce a timer in device call > loop/iterations and based on the feedback (y or n) obtained introduce an > if/else decision followed by a goto statement to the corresponding line > of code that will either configure or not configure the device (or maybe > call another file/s with the conf procedures). pls tell me what's your > opinion - will it do the trick ? This would need to happen in the kernel, though; I'm pretty sure that it already has a timeout, since the detection calls do fail eventually - it just takes excruciatingly long (some 20 seconds). -- Clicking on floppy gives "no device media found" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/441835 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
