Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 4 Jun 2010 11:12:03 -0400 | From | Nick Bowler <> | Subject | Re: floppy driver assumes INITIAL_JIFFIES == 0 |
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On 15:40 Thu 03 Jun , Linus Torvalds wrote: > Although one comment says it all: > > Cons: I ordered 5. After 45 days 3 of them have failed. Too late to return. > > so apparently you do need to order a lot of them to keep them going ;)
I actually still have a real floppy drive in my primary desktop. Bought it new in 2001, and it still worked when I used it (once!) in fall 2008.
That being said, it would have been quite frustrating if Linux oopsed when I tried to use this piece of hardware. It was frustrating enough to even find a single disk to put in it :).
-- Nick Bowler, Elliptic Technologies (http://www.elliptictech.com/)
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