floppy support

[Przemek Klosowski]

On 08/30/2011 09:02 AM, Chris Adams wrote:

> It isn't why I use floppies under Linux, but my mother's very expensive
> computerized embroidery machine uses floppies to transfer patterns.
> There are still things in the real world that exclusively use floppy
> disks, and they aren't going away as rapidly as some seem to think.
>

I feel your pain; a lot of perfectly good lab equipment has floppies 
too, but whenever practical, I'd recommend a USB floppy drive emulator 
from ipcas or http://www.rioc.us/ufr-usb-floppy-replacement.php or 
http://www.floppytousb.com/