Appendix 7: Arguments

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until you only see an occasional error message. Building

the kernel with the floppy driver as a module will allow

you to remove the driver and reinstall it with a different

threshold value without the need to reboot the machine.

Remember to reissue the floppycontrol   messages com 

mand after each reload of the driver. Usually this  tun 

ing  will not be necessary, as the default value of 0xa is

a reasonable value in most cases.

floppy=unexpected interrupts

This argument causes a warning message to be printed

whenever an unexpected interrupt is received from the

floppy. This is the default behavior.

floppy=no unexpected interrupts and floppy=L40SX

These arguments causes no message to be printed when

an unexpected interrupt in received. The IBM L40SX

laptops have an interaction between certain video modes

and the floppy controller that result in unexpected

interrupts. These interrupts only effect performance and

can be safely ignored.

fdutils and mtools provide additional run time configuration capabilities for

the floppy drive, including reading high capacity disks.