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External usb floppy constantly seeks / chugs
I'm running windows 10 on a gigabyte 370n-wifi board with a pentium g5400 gold core; it's a fairly modern bios etc. I bought an external usb floppy drive from ebay. It was one of the new ones designed more for legacy support. I would assume the computer is seeing it basically as a usb drive called 'floppy drive' and something on board may be doing the floppy drive read, as opposed to the computer controlling it directly. I noticed it does two odd things for a floppy drive. One, the led is continually on even when it's not actually reading. Two, it makes a 'chug' sound every couple of minutes. I realise that's the drive head jogging and it's quite likely caused by windows re-polling the connected drives; it even does it with file explorer closed. Question is, is there anyway to make it stop doing that other than just unplugging it?