Timeout problems with "blkid" applet

[Alexander Griesser]

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walter harms wrote:
> Alexander Griesser schrieb:
>> Denys Vlasenko wrote:
>>>> Actually, the problem seems to be in the close() and open() calls
>>>> for the floppy drive. open takes about 40 seconds and close takes a bit
>>>> more than a minute.
>>> No, the second long one is read, not close. close is ~instantaneous:
>> Oh, you're right, sorry.
>>
>>> I don't have floppy at hand, I need you to do some testing.
>> Me neither, that's why I'm having the problem :)
> 
> i have a usb floppy at home would that be sufficient ?

I don't think so. Besides that, it's not that I don't have a floppy
drive at hand if I would need one, it's just that in the T-series
notebooks there's no space for a floppy drive (I don't need it for my
thinclients anyway) and that the other VIA EPICA based thinclients
simply don't have one attached.

I'm still trying to figure out what my desktop blkid application really
does, maybe it simply ignores floppy disk drives whereas busybox blkid
does scan them and that the desktop blkid would behave the same if it
would scan for floppy drives too.

Another thing I found out while walking through the CMOS options of
these thinclients: They had a floppy drive configured although none
was there, so I tried to disable it in the CMOS et voila: The timeout
is gone.

So the CMOS definetly was configured wrong, but the question about
why busybox' blkid behaves differently is still unanswered.

ciao,
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