From: Michael Mol <mikemol@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Floppy support question for old farts. lol
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 17:41:02 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+czFiC+QMo=guV-wSL9XB19EC1UVeMeGs+8UfscS-OxgD1fhw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jg4g14$141$1@dough.gmane.org>
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 5:08 PM, walt <w41ter@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 01/29/2012 12:04 PM, Dale wrote:
>> Mark Knecht wrote:
>
>>> 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?
>
>> Hmmmm, super point. May suggest that. I got to boot something to see
>> what this rig has in it. It may be a older system. I'm pretty sure I
>> saw USB tho.
>>
>> I bet USB has a better life span than floppies too.
>
> Boy that's the truth. All of my three (working) old machines still have
> floppy drives, but my next one won't.
Yeah, I haven't had a box with a floppy drive in quite some time.
> And good riddance, too. Last
> time I made a floppy boot disk (years ago) I had to format about a dozen
> floppies before I found a good one :p
FWIW, you could probably have fixed them by using superformat to do a
low-level format. And you coulda made yourself some disks capable of
holding a whopping *two megabytes!*
>
> BTW, the floppy drives I have don't send any interrupt when I insert a
> disk, so automounting is a non starter. Maybe the newer USB external
> floppy drives do, dunno, but I'm not tempted to try one.
Possibly. Thing is, the spec for floppies which plugged into PC clones
didn't really allow for any kind of notification. It just plugged into
an MFM controller, which swept the read/write head around to the
commands of the host machine. I do know that the USB drives make
assumptions about floppy sector/track layouts, which I found to be a
bit of a bummer.
--
:wq
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Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-29 13:16 [gentoo-user] Floppy support question for old farts. lol Dale
2012-01-29 13:44 ` [gentoo-user] " Hartmut Figge
2012-01-29 16:09 ` [gentoo-user] " Philip Webb
2012-01-29 16:19 ` Michael Mol
2012-01-29 17:19 ` J. Roeleveld
2012-01-29 18:06 ` Dale
2012-01-29 18:14 ` Michael Mol
2012-01-29 19:02 ` Dale
2012-01-29 19:09 ` Mark Knecht
2012-01-29 19:27 ` Mick
2012-01-29 20:04 ` Dale
2012-01-29 22:08 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2012-01-29 22:41 ` Michael Mol [this message]
2012-01-29 23:41 ` walt
2012-01-29 23:46 ` Michael Mol
2012-01-30 0:02 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-01-30 0:16 ` Michael Mol
2012-01-30 1:29 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-01-30 3:40 ` Michael Mol
2012-01-30 4:23 ` David Relson
2012-01-30 11:48 ` Peter Humphrey
2012-01-30 20:52 ` Dale
2012-01-30 5:07 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2012-01-30 9:33 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-01-30 9:34 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-01-30 13:55 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-01-30 12:57 ` [gentoo-user] " Mike Edenfield
2012-01-30 13:09 ` Michael Hampicke
2012-01-30 13:14 ` James Broadhead
2012-01-31 3:25 ` Mike Edenfield
2012-01-30 21:20 ` Dale
2012-01-31 0:29 ` Peter Humphrey
2012-01-31 2:56 ` Mike Edenfield
2012-01-31 17:00 ` Michael Hampicke
2012-01-31 17:05 ` Michael Hampicke
2012-01-31 17:30 ` Walter Dnes
2012-01-31 23:10 ` wdk@moriah
2012-02-01 5:15 ` J. Roeleveld
2012-02-01 5:36 ` Dale
2012-02-01 11:54 ` Michael Mol
2012-02-01 13:41 ` Dale
2012-02-02 1:01 ` Walter Dnes
2012-02-02 2:54 ` Michael Mol
2012-02-02 3:33 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2012-02-02 4:12 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2012-02-02 7:54 ` [gentoo-user] " J. Roeleveld
2012-02-02 9:17 ` Hinnerk van Bruinehsen
2012-02-02 16:26 ` Paul Hartman
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