diskseekd(1)                          diskseekd(1)

Name
       diskseek,  diskseekd  -  disk  seek daemon;
       simulates Messy Dos’ drive cleaning effect

Note
       This manpage has been automatically  gener‐
       ated  from fdutils’s texinfo documentation.
       However, this process  is  only  approxima‐
       tive,  and  some items, such as crossrefer‐
       ences, footnotes and indices  are  lost  in
       this  translation  process.   Indeed, these
       items have no appropriate representation in
       the  manpage  format.   Moreover,  only the
       items specific to each  command  have  been
       translated,  and  the  general  information
       about fdutils has been dropped in the  man‐
       page  version.   Thus I strongly advise you
       to use the original texinfo doc.

       *      To generate a  printable  copy  from
              the  texinfo  doc, run the following
              commands:

                     ./configure; make dvi; dvips fd
utils.dvi

       *      To generate a html copy,  run:

                     ./configure; make html

              A premade  html  can  be  found  at:
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              tils’
 *      To generate an info copy  (browsable
              using emacs’ info mode), run:

                     ./configure; make info

       The  texinfo  doc  looks  most  pretty when
       printed or as html.  Indeed,  in  the  info
       version  certain  examples are difficult to
       read due to the quoting conventions used in
       info.

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: