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How about rather then at installation time, but the first time someone queries for the floppy drive? Every time you boot it will always spin the drive the firs
by icefox 18y ago
How about rather then at installation time, but the first time someone queries for the floppy drive? Every time you boot it will always spin the drive the first time, but not after that. That seems much better then always spinning up the drive.
- icefox 18y agoNot to mention that they were Microsoft in the days of Windows95. If anyone could get floppy manufacture's to standardize they could.
- sounddust 18y agoI would guess that one problem with this approach is that in 1994/95, the setting for the existence of a floppy drive in the BIOS did not always work properly (and sometimes there was no setting for "no floppy"). Therefore, if windows tried to check for the floppy on boot when you had no floppy installed, it would hang the system for a long period of time.