Re: [gentoo-user] Floppy support question for old farts. lol

[Mick]

On Sunday 29 Jan 2012 19:09:59 Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 11:02 AM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:
> <SNIP>
>
> > I'm going to try to talk him into letting my transfer them to CD.  Tell
> > him it is time to catch up with new and better things.  CD drives has
> > autodetect and just plain work better anyway.
> >
> > At least I know there is a chance.  ;-)
> >
> > Dale
> >
> > :-)  :-)
>
> A single USB thumb drive for $20 would likely hold every floppy he
> ever made, and maybe 10-20 times more. Why waste time making & sorting
> through CDs, etc?

I'm coming to this late, but floppies should just work™ and show up under 
/dev/fd0 or /dev/floppy.  I've got an old laptop which has a bay for CDROM or 
floppy and was able to access a floppy only a couple of months ago.  With fluxbox 
and no automounting I had to run pmount or mount (can't recall now).

The only historical problem I recall is when running grub prompt at grub 
installation time which could spend an inordinate amount of time probing the 
floppy (using --no-floppy sorts this out).
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Regards,
Mick