Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 22:50:26 +0100 From: "Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg" <listsub@rambo.simx.org> To: Randell Jesup <rjesup@wgate.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, olli@secnetix.de Subject: Re: FreeBSD Floppy driver needs enhancement... Message-ID: <3C3E0CA2.3010103@rambo.simx.org> References: <7e04eadc031ed907d2@[192.168.1.4]> <8303d2c304636007d2@[192.168.1.4]>
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Randell Jesup wrote: [snip] > Back to the original question: do people care about floppies and > bad-sector recovery anymore? Aren't floppies on the very verge of > disappearing for good, replaced by CDRW's? I think we will have to assume that the floppy will hang around for some time still. Look at how people choose to install BSD. There are downloadable ISO images of bootable CD's available on almost every mirror out there, still, most people downloads the floppy images and install via ftp. Look at computer manufacturers. AFAIK, Apple is the only one so far that has dared to step up and ship a new computer without floppy. All PC's still comes with a 3.5" floppy drive. Why? Well, they are slow and error prone, but the floppy is probably the most supported, cheapest and most spread media we have today. Everywhere you go, whatever kind of computer environment you are in, you can almost be 100% certain that you will be able to access information on a DOS formatted floppy. CDRW's is not quite there yet, and making a bootable rescue CD is still to complicated for many users. But I will not cry the day I can remove my last floppy drive and throw it away, thats for sure. Just my $0.02. -- R To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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