From owner-freebsd-small Sat Oct 2 9:13:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from arg1.demon.co.uk (arg1.demon.co.uk [194.222.34.166]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF4DA1512E for ; Sat, 2 Oct 1999 09:13:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from arg@arg1.demon.co.uk) Received: from localhost (arg@localhost) by arg1.demon.co.uk (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA28674; Sat, 2 Oct 1999 17:14:17 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from arg@arg1.demon.co.uk) Date: Sat, 2 Oct 1999 17:14:17 +0100 (BST) From: Andrew Gordon X-Sender: arg@server.arg.sj.co.uk To: "Daniel C. Sobral" Cc: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help... heh. In-Reply-To: <37F5B124.2446D85B@newsguy.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 2 Oct 1999, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > Frankly, if the machines are networked, it would be better to have > them as diskless. The floppy drive is slow and unreliable. I don't > know if the reliability of floppies or floppy drives have decreased > as their use diminishes, or if our driver isn't much good (well, it > has never been much good, but it might have got worse), but problems > that are traced back to bad floppies are often reported. I don't think it's the driver - just that floppy drives have got worse as the price has got squeezed out. I don't think high-quality ordinary floppy drives are available any more. However, I have had good experience using LS120 drives (just using them to read ordinary floppies, ignoring their high-capacity potential). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message