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Old 09-17-2010, 10:47 PM   #6
SameerH
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Originally Posted by shall1028 View Post
I would venture that the desktop app is not puroposefully trying to grind the floppy drive. It is probably polling the OS for removable media (i.e. a Kobo) and a side effect is that the OS attempts to read the floppy drive and, presumably, since there is a no disk in the drive it waits until the drive times out with an error.

If the grinding puts you off just throw a floppy disk in the drive so that the OS will find something.
ding ding ding ding.

Fixed in 1.6 available here for Kobo customers:
http://www.kobobooks.com/desktop

For Borders US / AU / A&R / Whitcoulls customers, the upgrade is going through some approval by the retailers before it will be available to you.
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