Floppy Drive Does a Seek at Shutdown

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J. P. Willis - 18 Feb 2005 08:13 GMT

What dio I need to do to perevent the floppy drive from coming on to
seek a disk at shutdown. It only recently started to happen. Please
help.

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Mikhail Zhilin - 18 Feb 2005 09:04 GMT

>What dio I need to do to perevent the floppy drive from coming on to
>seek a disk at shutdown. It only recently started to happen. Please
>help.

Most likely it is antivirus, that checks if the diskette is inserted --
to prevent the potential virus infection if this diskette is bootable.
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PattyL - 18 Feb 2005 14:17 GMT

Mikhail is correct. If you really want to stop this behavior, you can
probably configure your anti-virus not to check the floppy on shutdown by
looking for options or preferences within the antivirus program.

PattyL

> What dio I need to do to perevent the floppy drive from coming on to
> seek a disk at shutdown. It only recently started to happen. Please
> help.

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