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From: hack@bellboy.UUCP (Greg Hackney)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport
Subject: Re: Diskette light
Message-ID: <1083@bellboy.UUCP>
Date: 5 Jun 88 15:56:40 GMT
Article-I.D.: bellboy.1083
References: <76@carpet.WLK.COM> <2490@bigtex.uucp>
Reply-To: hack@bellboy.UUCP (Greg Hackney)
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In article <2490@bigtex.uucp> james@bigtex.UUCP (James Van Artsdalen) writes:
>This problem
>is that when uPort starts up, it has to disconnect BIOS, and hence BIOS
>sometimes never gets a chance to turn the drive motor back off.  What
>*should* happen is that uPort should turn off the floppy disk after booting,
>but...  I got around this problem in an interesting way.  I deliberately
>fragmented my root partition and then re-copied /unix.  I then ran fsck -S
>to clean it up again.  The result is that booting takes long enough to let the
>floppy drive turn off before unix takes over.  Ugly, but it works...-- 

That's ugly! Wouldn't it work just as well to do something
like this after uPort is up:

echo < /dev/rfd > /dev/null 2>&1

--
Greg