[ltp] Strange floppy problem solved

[Christian Zoz]

On Mon, May 27, Maarten de Jong wrote:
> 
> 
> To whom it may concern,
> 
> I don't know whether my 'discovery' is new, but I thought I'd pass it along 
> just in case. I had many difficulties in getting the floppy drive in my 
> Thinkpad 600E to work (see my message on the 16th of November, 2001). 
> Following the documentation of the floppy driver, I had appended a 
> 'floppy=thinkpad' line to my kernel parameter list. But the problems 
> remained: mounting worked, but trying to read or write something to the 
> floppy drive failed. Then I tried *removing* the above line, and hey 
> presto, my drive worked flawlessly.
> 
> Moral: apparently the 'floppy=thinkpad' line can cause more harm than good 
> on certain systems.

floppy=thinkpad is a historic option. Thinkpads used to have special
floppies in former days. But i don't know any detail; my first
Thinkpad experience was a 600.

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ciao, christian

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