[ltp] 390E long floppy seek time at boot

[Rob Smith]

Oops, my bad. I answered before digesting the entire complaint. That's what
I get for trying to get a reply off while rushing to get out the door. Sorry
'bout that. Once the system boots, does it seem to read a disk in the floppy
drive in a normally acceptable amount of time, or is it sluggish then also?
You could have a drive that going bad. Do you have access to another floppy
drive that you can try?

As to your second issue (the one I was in too much of a hurry to address),
why are you using a reboot command to shut down the machine? Anyway, if you
must power down without using the "-h" switch, you might try to hold the
switch for a few seconds. I know I used to have to do this with my
daughter's DeskPro under Win98 until they came out with a patch for a
shutdown issue. It wouldn't powerdown at shut down (yes, the registry key
was set correctly), so I had to choose reboot, then wait until just before
Windows began to load. I could then get it switched off.

Rob

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nate Bargmann" <n0nb@networksplus.net>
To: <linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org>
Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 4:48 PM
Subject: Re: [ltp] 390E long floppy seek time at boot


> * Rob Smith <r_a_smith3530@sbcglobal.net> [2003 Feb 10 16:22 -0600]:
> > FDISK /MBR?
> >
> > Rob Smith
>
> ???
>
> In all my years of dealing with PCs, I'm not sure how that will help
> when it's the floppy LED that is on for 35 Sec.  The HDD is fine, near
> as I can tell.
>
> Please enlighten me!
>
> - Nate >>
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