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 _______________________________________________ kernel mailing list kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kernel
