floppy disk multitasking problems
Hello fellow users!
I've a rather general technical question.
Floppy drives have been around for who knows how much
time. But even more, it seems that they originated
not from multitasking OSs like UN*X and Linux, but
from Macs and PCs running DOS.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems that whenever I
mount a floppy, the whole Linux multitsking stops. It
is as though the mounting of a floppy is an
uninteruptable process. Maybe HDDs are relatively
fast, but I never notice such problems when mounting
them.
What is the reason for the delay in the system when
floppies are mounted? why it doesn't effect HDDs,
they are also physical drives? Buffer problems?
TIA.
sasha.
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