Bug 132631

Summary: Writing to FAT-formatted floppy is _extremely_ slow.
Product: [openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0 Reporter: Balazs Melikant <balazs.melikant>
Component: BasesystemAssignee: Adrian Schröter <adrian.schroeter>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P5 - None CC: balazs.melikant
Version: Final   
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Hardware: Other   
OS: SuSE Linux 10.0   
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Description Balazs Melikant 2005-11-07 19:32:55 UTC 
I have four 32-bit desktop comps (three AMDs and one PIII from Intel) having a common feature that they manage to write a 500kb file in about _20 minutes_ to a floppy. (Reading from floppy is not affected.)
It's reproducible and is not dependent on the way, how I try to copy the file(s), under Konqueror in KDE, mc under icewm or e.g. through ssh. I also attempted to use various floppy-disks (, but all with existing FAT), tried to turn off 'sync' for the device in fstab, etc.
Please let me know, which logs you would need to show, that this problem exists; I didn't touch any of the systems subfs and (expect for the tests) I use the original/default fstab entries for the floppy.
Comment 1 Dr. Werner Fink 2005-11-08 11:04:16 UTC 
maybe related to submount
Comment 2 Danny Al-Gaaf 2005-11-11 17:56:22 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 105871 ***
Comment 3 Balazs Melikant 2005-11-13 19:11:41 UTC 
I'm sorry, but I don't agree with you that it's just a duplicate of that previously reported bug, because I have 100% "traditional" floppy-drive (having no USB!) and I attempted to use my drive(s) with and without the 'sync' option.