Hi Leo,

> > Did anyone notice that the floppy drive motor is
> > never turned off?  Kinda weird feature. :-)
> When NetBSD is up and running the motor should stop spinning after
> about 5 sec. idle time - at least it did when I last tested it....

Nope, it doesn't. It stops a few seconds after the floppy drive has
been accessed for the first time (eg mounting an fs, or installing
a new bootstrap ;-) ).

I didn't examine any further, but I guess, the problem is that the
controller is only initialised on the first open (Fdopen() in fd.c)?

> It might be that the motor doesn't stop spinning when it was on when the
> system was rebooted. This is a bug indeed.

No difference between (auto-)boot from floppy or harddisk, and also
the same thing when booting NetBSD under TOS/MagiC (from harddisk of
course).


Waldi