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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.


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