Bruno Wolff III <br...@wolff.to> writes: > On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 21:45:13 -0500, > "Dale J. Chatham" <d...@chatham.org> wrote: >> OK, I was an idiot. I took about 20 minutes yesterday looking for a way >> to disable the floppy. Today, it jumped out at me. >> >> Doh! >> >> I might suggest that timing out the attempt to query a floppy and moving >> on might be a wise for the developers to do :) > > It does time out. It's just a long time out. > There are multiple bugs related to this issue. The current fix (not used > in anaconda) is to not probe floppy controllers. This has the downside > that floppy drives are detected at boot. In you know about modprode you > can make it so your systems will get a working floppy on boot, but for > "normal" users, this change is going to cause some confusion. > > Kyle had an idea about how to prevent the long timeouts for improperly > configured or broken bios and still allow systems with floppy drives > to have them detected at boot without doing anything special. I don't > think this has been implemented yet though.
Are floppies still used by most people? I can't recall the last time I tried to use one. If the floppy hardware is really so broken that it causes hangs, wouldn't it be better to just not probe for them ever unless some boot-time flag were given? -wolfgang -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
