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SubjectRe: floppy driver assumes INITIAL_JIFFIES == 0
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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