Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2017 11:21:31 +0000 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: gljennjohn@gmail.com 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: <23284.1512300091@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <20171203120028.32f84314@ernst.home> References: <201712030616.vB36GFEg026146@slippy.cwsent.com> <43746890-e60a-5c8f-4c77-bbfe9a5a6aa9@selasky.org> <67961.1512296877@critter.freebsd.dk> <20171203120028.32f84314@ernst.home>
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-------- In message <20171203120028.32f84314@ernst.home>, Gary Jennejohn writes: >On Sun, 03 Dec 2017 10:27:57 +0000 >> 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.. I'm not saying it is worth it, there are better data-preservation tools than FreeBSD for this. Check out the "Kryoflux" for instance. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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