On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 11:51:10AM -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
I occasionally use them for transferring data between some old
laptops and
machines running Fedora. Occasionally I have also used them for driver disks,
though all of my computers currently are on the last bios version they are ever
likely to get.
As things went in the other discussion, it isn't hard to get floppies to
work, it's hard finding out what the issue is and how to fix it. Now that
I know I need to run modprobe it isn't a big deal for me. But this information
is not readily available to people and can cause significant problems for
people who stumble accross it.
The problem is, EVERYONE has a floppy controller and NOBODY(*) has a
floppy disk drive. PNP only reports the presence of the controller, not
the drive.
Ergo: FAIL for everyone, for the sake of some ancient crap that nobody
except for a vocal minority of approximately three people cares about.
--Kyle