diskseekd(1) diskseekd(1)
Name
diskseek, diskseekd - disk seek daemon;
simulates Messy Dos’ drive cleaning effect
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Description
Several people have noticed that Linux has
a bad tendency of killing floppy drives.
These failures remained completely mysteri‐
ous, until somebody noticed that they were
due to huge layers of dust accumulating in
the floppy drives. This cannot happen under
Messy Dos, because this excuse for an oper‐
ating system is so unstable that it crashes
roughly every 20 minutes (actually less if
you are running Windows). When rebooting,
the BIOS seeks the drive, and by doing
this, it shakes the dust out of the drive
mechanism. diskseekd simulates this effect
by seeking the drive periodically. If it
is called as diskseek, the drive is seeked
only once.
Options
The syntax for diskseekd is as follows: