gparted takes a long time to scan all devices, while uselessly scanning for floppy drives
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| gparted (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
I normally boot from a hard disk.
Since updating to Ubuntu 7.10, gparted takes a very long time while scanning all devices. Perhaps 20 minutes.
Earlier versions of Ubuntu's gparted didn't have this problem.
While gparted is fiddling, a little light on my laptop shows a floppy drive being accessed. Yet there is no floppy drive attached. Gparted ought to know that there is no floppy drive attached to the machine, or at least stop wasting 20 minutes of time trying to scan for it before allowing the user to edit the partitions.
I don't want to edit my bios to disable boot from floppy. Some other ubuntu bug (#155047) suggested that workaround for when Gparted is hung. Gparted is not really hung, since it does wake eventually. And I want to be able to attach a floppy so that I may boot from it at any time.
One other thing that changed after updating is that my partitions are named /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda2, rather than, as they had been before, /dev/hda1 and /dev/hda2.
