From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RrdRu-000181-0d for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 29 Jan 2012 22:42:14 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1D6D5E07FB; Sun, 29 Jan 2012 22:42:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bk0-f53.google.com (mail-bk0-f53.google.com [209.85.214.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4243E0788 for ; Sun, 29 Jan 2012 22:41:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bke11 with SMTP id 11so795185bke.40 for ; Sun, 29 Jan 2012 14:41:02 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=7owEv4M8rRkbJ6GBqUiwBy8DlCsYmB4Vf0hpPRl7Jck=; b=tHPY9U6kNt2yViOCiS20px0SyNLa4IbagcNGYG3vMiuLxEbtnfch6uDw6KNFGWyWyc b6H0RtoFTQGkv+JK9LPvFJAAhi72az3IvZfpRQmnyEh70muPl1jBMiE/3YFGUeKET72E 8pBZmTfOiBWTJkhua/RbP3PCFr7B/2f4urqPQ= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.152.219 with SMTP id h27mr7423658bkw.40.1327876862826; Sun, 29 Jan 2012 14:41:02 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.205.124.129 with HTTP; Sun, 29 Jan 2012 14:41:02 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <4F2546BC.3010608@gmail.com> <4F258AAF.9090504@gmail.com> <4F2597AD.1010509@gmail.com> <4F25A644.3060906@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 17:41:02 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Floppy support question for old farts. lol From: Michael Mol To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: ef7eeb4d-ddcf-4194-9a2f-e250f55301b0 X-Archives-Hash: 24abb9a39917385510cf9d5b7f4de67b On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 5:08 PM, walt 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. =C2=A0May suggest that. =C2=A0I got to boot somethin= g to see >> what this rig has in it. =C2=A0It may be a older system. =C2=A0I'm prett= y sure I >> saw USB tho. >> >> I bet USB has a better life span than floppies too. > > Boy that's the truth. =C2=A0All 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. =C2=A0Last > 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. =C2=A0Maybe the newer USB externa= l > 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. --=20 :wq