Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 16:28:01 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OT: click-click in floppy disk drive Message-ID: <20131023162801.2bf4b69a.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20131023084125.626098b2@scorpio> References: <20131021135605.DSZ95987@ms5.mc.surewest.net> <20131022230000.9bfa7add.freebsd@edvax.de> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1310221953550.89571@wonkity.com> <20131023134628.d91267ab.freebsd@edvax.de> <20131023084125.626098b2@scorpio>
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On Wed, 23 Oct 2013 08:41:25 -0400, Jerry wrote: > I have an old portable "floppy drive > -1.44" somewhere, I would have to find it, that I could plug into the > serial port if required. You mean "serial port" as "RS-232 9 pin connector"? PCs that don't have floppy disk drives usually also don't have serial ports anymore (the same like parallel ports that have disappeared many years ago). On very rare occassions, to be honest, every few years, I have to access systems that can only process 1.44" floppies for (small amount) data exchange - no USB ports, no network, no nothing. For this really exceptional case I have a USB floppy drive. I hope that at least _sometimes_ using it will keep the drive alive until the "target system" does a favour to the world (including me) and finally stops working. But you know: Never touch a running system... :-) > It use to work on Windows. Only as long as there is a working driver support! ;-) > I never even > attempted to try it on FreeBSD. I've tested with a USB floppy disk drive, and it is supported. The device will appear as a normal direct access drive (/dev/da?). > I wonder if anyone is still using the > old ZIP drives. There was a serious problem with them and the "Click of > Death" situation. Oh, that kind of nasty "hardware virus" where a misaligned drive could "infect" ZIP media that would then misalign any further drive they've been put into? I haven't been using ZIP drives myself, I know they existed for external SCSI, parallel and maybe even USB (and of course internal ATA) connections, but as far as I know, they didn't leave behind any significant footprint in IT history. (At least they were very rare here in Germany.) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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