floppy support (was: [HEADS UP] remove ddate(1) command from rawhide)

Karel Zak kzak at redhat.com
Mon Aug 29 15:23:56 UTC 2011


On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 09:37:37AM -0500, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
> Chris Adams wrote:
> > Why does util-linux have two floppy disk formatters (/usr/bin/floppy and
> > /usr/sbin/fdformat)?
> 
> Why does it have any floppy tools any more?

 because we still support floppy devices?

> The kernel maintainers don't 
> support the floppy module and the module hasn't been auto-loaded for 
> several releases.

 Does it mean that "modprobe floppy" does not work? 

    Karel

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