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Old 03-21-2011, 11:34 PM   #1
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Drive A:
I have on my machine, for some purposes an old "floppy" (3.25") drive which I do occasionally need to use.
When I start Calibre, it activates the drive, and the empty drive clunks away.
How to I stop Calibre from trying to detect the floppy drive -- and focus on the USB ports instead?
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Old 03-21-2011, 11:46 PM   #2
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That will happen only if you have something connected that calibre thinks is a device, like a USB stick. Go to preferences->misclellaneous and click debug device detection and post the output, that will tell us what the device is.
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Old 04-19-2011, 10:03 AM   #3
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Well the original poster did not reply but I am having the same issue.
Here is my debug output:


USB devices on system:
[u'usb\\root_hub&vid8086&pid3a68&rev0002',
u'usb\\root_hub&vid8086&pid3a64&rev0002',
u'usb\\root_hub&vid8086&pid3a67&rev0002',
u'usb\\root_hub&vid8086&pid3a65&rev0002',
u'usb\\root_hub&vid8086&pid3a69&rev0002',
u'usb\\root_hub&vid8086&pid3a66&rev0002',
u'usb\\root_hub20&vid8086&pid3a6c&rev0002',
u'usb\\root_hub20&vid8086&pid3a6a&rev0002',
u'usb\\vid_046d&pid_c025&rev_9802',
u'usb\\vid_0fca&pid_8004&rev_0211',
u'usb\\vid_0fca&pid_8004&rev_0211&mi_00',
u'usb\\vid_0fca&pid_8004&rev_0211&mi_01',
u'usb\\vid_413c&pid_2003&rev_0301']
Drives detected:
Available plugins: ALEX ALURATEK_COLOR ANDROID ARCHOS7O AVANT AZBOOKA BAMBOOK BLACKBERRY
BOOQ BOOX COOL_ER CYBOOK DBOOK E52 E71X EB511 EB600 EBK52 ECLICTO EDGE
EEEREADER ELONEX ESLICK FOLDER_DEVICE_FOR_CONFIG GEMEI GER2 HANLINV3
HANLINV5 ILIAD INVESBOOK IPAPYRUS IREXDR1000 IREXDR800 IRIVER_STORY
ITALICA ITUNES JETBOOK JETBOOK_MINI KINDLE KINDLE2 KINDLE_DX KOBO
LUMIREAD MENTOR MIBUK N516 N770 N810 NEWSMY NEXTBOOK NOOK NOOK_COLOR
NUUT2 ORIZON PALMPRE PDNOVEL PDNOVEL_KOBO PICO POCKETBOOK301
POCKETBOOK360 POCKETBOOK602 POCKETBOOK701 PRS505 README S60 SHINEBOOK
SNE SOVOS SPECTRA STASH SUNSTECH_EB700 SWEEX TECLAST_K3 THEBOOK
TREKSTOR VELOCITYMICRO WEXLER

Looking for devices...
u'usb\\vid_0fca&pid_8004&rev_0211'
u'usb\\vid_0fca&pid_8004&rev_0211&mi_00'
u'usb\\vid_0fca&pid_8004&rev_0211&mi_01'

Devices possibly connected: None
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Old 04-19-2011, 10:06 AM   #4
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The problem is your blackberry. Either do not connect it to your computer when calibre is running, or go to Preferences->plugins and disable the blackberry plaugin in calibre.
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Old 04-20-2011, 11:20 AM   #5
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Unplugging the blackberry did the trick.
I also disabled the BB plug-in within calibre but it still chugs away on the drive when the BB is plugged in.
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Old 04-20-2011, 11:27 AM   #6
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Are you sure you disabled the right plugin? Run the device debug again and see.
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Old 04-25-2011, 09:17 AM   #7
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I rebooted over the weekend and that seems to have fixed the problem. I can now have my BB pugged in and Calibre up with out the A drive chugging. Thanks so much for your help.
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