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Hangs while trying to read magic from floppy disk drives (and possibly other removable media like tape drives) #30

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GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago
What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Start qwbfsmanager

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Expected qebfsmanager to start.
It hangs with a gray splash box (where the image should be), strace tells me 
it's trying to read /dev/fd0 (Mine is a 5.25" ds dd drive capable of accessing 
40 or 80 track disks)

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Version = ?
OS = Arch Linux

Please provide any additional information below.
A temp. fix is to remove /dev/fd0, which allows qwbfs to start, but this makes 
accessing floppies rather difficult.

qwbfs could check the devicename first (I suppose there is no reason to try to 
access any device with names different from hd* and sd* ) ?
However I don't know how that would behave on for example a scsci attached tape 
drive, maybe checking for the type of device before trying to read it would be 
better?

Original issue reported on code.google.com by dusted...@gmail.com on 22 Nov 2013 at 12:32