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On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 7:45 PM, Marcus Wanner <marcusw@×××.net> wrote: |
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> On 12/17/2009 5:16 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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>> On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:21:28 -0500, Marcus Wanner wrote: |
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>>>> It's not IDE (IDE/ATAPI floppy support is for things like LS-120 |
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>>>> drives), but CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD, found in Device Drivers -> Block |
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>>>> devices -> Normal floppy disk support. If it's compiled as a module, |
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>>>> maybe you just need to modprobe floppy? |
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>>> I looked at that path in the config, it turns out that it was disabled |
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>>> (by default! why?). |
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>> For the same reason that support for punched card readers is disabled by |
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>> default. |
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> But they're so useful...and the computer we got a year ago had one. Do |
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> things really go obsolete like that after decades of prevalence? |
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> Marcus |
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Yep... why deal with floppies when you can get a tiny little stick |
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that'll hold about 5688 times as much (8GB), read and write faster, is |
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more portable, and costs about $20 US on Newegg (without shopping |
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around even a little to find one on sale). Windows XP is the last big |
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reason I've dealt with floppy drives in the past 2/3 of a decade or so |
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now, and that's only because the only other option in getting screwy |
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chipset drivers at install time is to rebuild the install media |
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(nforce fake raid on Dell XPSes, more often than not). |
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Poison [BLX] |
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