[ltp] Strange floppy problem solved

[Maarten de Jong]

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.


Kind regards,
Maarten

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