Comment 273 for bug 441835

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peter b (b1pete) wrote :

yes Martin, I fully understand your

.....'Thus
the BIOS and Linux still detect a /dev/df0, but once you want to talk
to it, there is never an answer (because there is no floppy behind
it), and thus the calls just time out.'.....

from #539515; I'm not a dev but logically thinking I ask myself though - would it be possible to put a timer of, say of 3-4 seconds (which is probably quite reasonable) to wait for an answer (iterations) on the call to the floppy device and based on the y or n received to configure/not configure the the device ?