Messages in this thread | | | From | (bill davidsen) | Subject | Re: Floppy in 2.6 | Date | 10 Nov 2003 23:21:58 GMT |
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In article <yw1xekwxx9vf.fsf@kth.se>, =?iso-8859-1?q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?= <mru@kth.se> wrote: | Jakub Krajcovic <news.receive@zoznam.sk> writes: | | > In 2.4 there was the option for "normal floppy support" and I have the | > /dev/fd0 device for my floppy when I boot the old 2.4.22 kernel. So my | > question is: does the 2.6 kernel support normal floppy disks or not? | > And if it does, how do I enable this support in order to use my floppy | > drive. | | It's there. In menuconfig it's "Device Drivers" -> "Block devices" -> | "Normal floppy disk support". | | Who uses floppy disks nowadays, anyway?
People who are non-power users, people who support hardware devices which use them and which cost too much to scrap and replace.
If I could find a good way to attach old 8 inch floppies to a PC using reasonably available hardware I would, it would allow me to retire what I use now. Since there's money in being able to do that, I do. -- bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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