floppy support

[Przemek Klosowski]

On 08/30/2011 03:18 PM, Jef Spaleta wrote:
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> On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 11:04 AM, Przemek Klosowski
> <przemek.klosowski at nist.gov <mailto:przemek.klosowski at nist.gov>> wrote:
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>     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/
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> I take it those usb based external floppy readers are auto-detected like
> sane hardware should be?

They connect to the floppy cable and look like a floppy drive.