12-03-2011, 10:47 AM | #1 |
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Floppy Annoyance
Is there any way I can disable Calibre from searching my A: drive? I upgraded to 8.29 and that behaviour is back again. It's not the end of the world but it is annoying.
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12-03-2011, 11:39 AM | #2 |
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If you do not use the A: drive anymore (cannot imagine anybody still using it but I have been proven to be wrong before), you could try to disable it in the PC's BIOS settings, and/or via the device manager of your (Windows) OS.
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Surely Calibre shouldn't be accessing drives with removable media if they don't currently have any media in them, should it?
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12-03-2011, 11:46 AM | #4 |
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This is almost certaintly something at the OS level doing this rather than Calibre itself.
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12-03-2011, 11:55 AM | #5 |
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12-03-2011, 12:27 PM | #6 |
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Drive A: (and B: ) are hardcoded/hardwired build-in left-over relics of non-mobile devices, but still valid when not de-activated. So searches over all drives will also include A:, B:, C:, etc. I do not think calibre should solve this.
For WinXP, there existed a tweak utility to let windows "know" not to use drive A, B by unchecking some check-box. Did a quick search for something similar on my Win7, but no luck (have no A/B floppy drive anyway). Further, as windows allows renaming drive indications, drive A: might actually map to some exsisting external USB-drive. Another reason not to solve this in calibre. Just my 2cts. |
12-04-2011, 02:29 AM | #7 |
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OS level? Don't think so. I'm using XP and Calibre is polling the A: drive constantly, not the Kobo. I don't know why and shutting off the A: drive because of Calibre doesn't seem to be the right direction to me. As soon as I unmount the Kobo the polling stops. Something is in Calibre that's buggered.
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If you have a "fix" for this "bug", I am sure that Kovid would love to have it. He said as much in the bug report that I pointed toward. |
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12-04-2011, 07:02 AM | #9 |
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I don't anything about the phone and how it interfaces. If the issue is writing to an SD card, can't that writing be done to one of those little USB drives that mounts an SD card?
Then the card could be restored to the phone. |
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Can you explain what you mean by "not completely detected"? In my naivety, I would have thought that a device would either be detected or not. What does "not completely detected" actually mean?
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12-04-2011, 08:34 AM | #11 |
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It means that some device connected to the computer has USB IDs that calibre recognizes, but that either no disk drive known by calibre to be associated with the device can be found or the disk drive cannot be written. This situation can arise because the device is non-standard, is new but reuses a previous USB ID, or has firmware changes that calibre doesn't know about. It can also happen if some device is presenting bogus USB IDs.
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I actually had to disable (within XP) the floppy drive because of the constant polling. No issues now.
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I suppose we could detect that a given USB ID has failed N times in N tries and stop checking it until it disappears for a complete cycle (or something like that). My problem is that I have no motivation at all to take on this task, having neither a floppy drive nor a device that isn't fully recognized. |
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I completely understand that. It's always difficult to justify spending time on coding for obscure error conditions.
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