Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2017 11:56:27 +0000 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Alex Kozlov <ak@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Gary Jennejohn <gljennjohn@gmail.com>, arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Deprecating / Removing floppy drive support Message-ID: <23404.1512302187@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <20171203113341.GA68792@ravenloft.kiev.ua> References: <201712030616.vB36GFEg026146@slippy.cwsent.com> <43746890-e60a-5c8f-4c77-bbfe9a5a6aa9@selasky.org> <67961.1512296877@critter.freebsd.dk> <20171203120028.32f84314@ernst.home> <20171203113341.GA68792@ravenloft.kiev.ua>
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-------- 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. -- 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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