Jerry;  We have noticed this behaviour as well.  As more of our users get
laptops
we hear more complaints about it.  I believe this problem happens on any
laptop
with a removable Floppy drive.  It happens on our Microns as well as IBM
Thinkpads.
..Paul
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At 03:36 PM 6/6/97 -0400, you wrote:
At 03:36 PM 6/6/97 -0400, you wrote:
>Date:     June 6, 1997             Time: 1:09 PM
>From:     Jerry Lawson
>          The Hartford Insurance Group
>(860)  547-2960          jlawson AT thehartford DOT com
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>Here's a problem that has been around a while, but is really becoming
>annoying, since now it applies to me.  Does anyone else find this annoying?
>If so, I am thinking about putting this in as a "bug"  (as opposed to a
>feature...
>
>I have a ThinkPad 760E, but the problem is common to all ThinkPads with an
>internal CD Rom in place of the Floppy drive.  (I haven't any experience with
>other brands of Laptops - perhaps someone can comment on there experience).
>Whenever ADSM starts, it goes out and checks the status of the installed
>drives.  When it checks the floppy, since the device is not physically
>present, it waits an extremely long time - I have one customer who says that
>it takes several minutes for his machine to respond.  The wait on my machine
>seems to be about 30 seconds.  The real annoying thing is that even with the
>muti-tasking capability of the hardware and software, this is a single
>threaded situation, and the whole machine is locked up until ADSM wakes up
>and decides the drive isn't available.
>
>I think this is a bug, and the time out value is set too high - 5 seconds is
>long enough to check for the drive - after all if it isn't installed, I'm not
>going to install it in the next 5 seconds anyway..  What do you think?
>
>
>
>BTW, I have seen this on Win95 and Win NT 4.0 -- Haven't tried it on OS/2
>yet....
>
>
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>                                                     Jerry
>
>Insanity is doing the same thing over and over..and expecting the results to
>be different - Anon.
>