Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Fri, 14 Aug 2020 18:34:15 +0200
From:      Tomasz CEDRO <tomek@cedro.info>
To:        Don Wilde <dwilde1@gmail.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, Christoph Kukulies <kuku@kukulies.org>,  "Steve O'Hara-Smith" <steve@sohara.org>
Subject:   Re: 5.25" Floppy disk drive not recognized
Message-ID:  <CAM8r67CddPkGcuVp6qniGEUTdCK2NfEiOOrEuNqzrQkXNYzuBg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4db32149-6ddb-e70f-c36a-a2acc8bc0e9c@gmail.com>
References:  <46FFA8F9-90AA-42DE-8E8B-CA4383CA7AC6@kukulies.org> <20200814101021.c71f6c23768a5bef685739fe@sohara.org> <20200814071030.3f319e5a@scorpio.seibercom.net> <76A64DE1-B61B-405E-A623-C886819E1977@kukulies.org> <20200814151509.0feef428f3692a1d9a2bb39a@sohara.org> <CAM8r67A8896GM4fsTe-yQnkmz-MCKS0=fN7BwnGF4iixqA4=NA@mail.gmail.com> <4db32149-6ddb-e70f-c36a-a2acc8bc0e9c@gmail.com>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 6:14 PM Don Wilde wrote:
> On 8/14/20 8:45 AM, Tomasz CEDRO wrote:
> > Is floppy drive still available? Was it supposed to be removed..?
> It's still in the GENERIC kernel configuration. Disk Doctors, if you
> have one local, should be able to tell you whether the diskette itself
> is readable and formatted.

Good news, thank you :-) There was a discussion somewhere around 2017
to remove it.. I am glad floppies are still here and will stay here
:-) I am fan of retro computers and this may come handy :-)

https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arch/2017-December/018681.html

-- 
CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ, http://www.tomek.cedro.info



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?CAM8r67CddPkGcuVp6qniGEUTdCK2NfEiOOrEuNqzrQkXNYzuBg>