Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2017 12:00:28 +0100 From: Gary Jennejohn <gljennjohn@gmail.com> To: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Cc: Hans Petter Selasky <hps@selasky.org>, Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com>, "freebsd-arch@freebsd.org" <arch@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Deprecating / Removing floppy drive support Message-ID: <20171203120028.32f84314@ernst.home> In-Reply-To: <67961.1512296877@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <201712030616.vB36GFEg026146@slippy.cwsent.com> <43746890-e60a-5c8f-4c77-bbfe9a5a6aa9@selasky.org> <67961.1512296877@critter.freebsd.dk>
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On Sun, 03 Dec 2017 10:27:57 +0000 "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> wrote: > -------- > In message <43746890-e60a-5c8f-4c77-bbfe9a5a6aa9@selasky.org>, Hans Petter Selasky writes: > > >I think as long as you can read and write USB floppy drives under > >FreeBSD, this change is OK. Even though floppies are old-tech they are > >still important: > > > >https://news.slashdot.org/story/16/05/25/2054255/us-military-uses-8-inch-floppy-disks-to-coordinate-nuclear-force-operations > > Incidentally FreeBSD is/was the only modern OS which could > still read 8" floppies. > Really? I still have an 8" drive and floppies laying around. But try to find a controller for a modern computer which doesn't even have one for a 3-1/2" floppy drive.. -- Gary Jennejohn
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