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From: Alex Kozlov <ak@FreeBSD.org>
To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
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Subject: Re: Deprecating / Removing floppy drive support
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On Sun, Dec 03, 2017 at 11:56:27AM +0000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> --------
> In message <20171203113341.GA68792@ravenloft.kiev.ua>, Alex Kozlov writes:
> >On Sun, Dec 03, 2017 at 12:00:28PM +0100, Gary Jennejohn wrote:
> >> On Sun, 03 Dec 2017 10:27:57 +0000
> >> "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:
> >> 
> >> > Incidentally FreeBSD is/was the only modern OS which could
> >> > still read 8" floppies.
> >Well, with proper* cable you can connect 8" drive to fdc and read
> >it pretty much on any OS that supports floppies.
> Uhm... no ?
> 
> Very few OS's have had 8" format compatible settings since CP/M
> and even fewer handle the track46 pin correctly on write.
I'd done it in dos, I read about successful setups for Linux and
Windows(older). Anecdotally, I was not able to do it in FreeBSD.


-- 
Alex