Slow Floppy Access
 

Friends,
I am the one who switched from Windows to Linux and use it with much satisfaction. Obviously there are some issues, which I am trying to sort out one by one. One petty issue is that floppy access is very slow and problematic. For example, writing 1.2MB of data to a 1.44 inch floppy drive takes about 20 minutes in both KDE and Gnome environments. Please help me if there is any solution.
Allwyn

You might try forcing the buffer to write out to the floppy quicker by issuing an umount command after you do the copy.

umount /dev/floppy

If your floppy doesn't happen to be mounted on /dev/floppy you can use the mount command to find out where it is mounted:

mount

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Steve Stites