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 1Rrcwv-0000dk-GL for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 29 Jan 2012 22:10:15 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D39D4E080D; Sun, 29 Jan 2012 22:09:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 780DAE0760 for ; Sun, 29 Jan 2012 22:09:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D18ED6443E for ; Sun, 29 Jan 2012 22:08:59 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -2.253 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.253 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-1.243, BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.001, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.9, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01] autolearn=no Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id GnvFX-jwufkZ for ; Sun, 29 Jan 2012 22:08:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2FA32641FF for ; Sun, 29 Jan 2012 22:08:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RrcvX-0004ih-5q for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sun, 29 Jan 2012 23:08:47 +0100 Received: from adsl-69-234-196-147.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net ([69.234.196.147]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 29 Jan 2012 23:08:47 +0100 Received: from w41ter by adsl-69-234-196-147.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 29 Jan 2012 23:08:47 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: walt Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Floppy support question for old farts. lol Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 14:08:34 -0800 Message-ID: References: <4F2546BC.3010608@gmail.com> <4F258AAF.9090504@gmail.com> <4F2597AD.1010509@gmail.com> <4F25A644.3060906@gmail.com> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-69-234-196-147.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:9.0) Gecko/20120106 Thunderbird/9.0 In-Reply-To: <4F25A644.3060906@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: d6bd867f-c372-4fca-81e2-4ed060e81843 X-Archives-Hash: a8a76aa278df70b981a0c711549bc2c7 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. 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 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.