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

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Once upon a time, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler@xxxxxxxxx> said:
> No, it means that (unless this was recently fixed) you have to modprobe it 
> manually (e.g. from rc.local) because nothing bothers trying to modprobe it 
> for you anymore. IMHO, this is really broken, but the bug reports about it 
> were ignored or declared NOTABUG.

It is very irritating, since I only use floppies when I really need to,
and usually I've upgraded the system (I typically do clean installs)
since the last time.  I always have to stop and manually configure the
floppy drive again.

For a while, USB floppy drives got correctly configured when you plugged
them in (a udev rule was added to get /dev/floppy links and ownership),
but that was removed somewhere along the line.  I own the package for
formatting floppies in USB drives (ufiformat), and it is also irritating
when I go test it for new releases.  With changes over time, I don't
know how to get the device nodes with the correct access for the desktop
user anymore, and I figure if somebody went to the trouble of removing
the udev rules, there's not much point in asking to have them added
back.

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