On Tue, 2011-08-30 at 08:40 +0200, drago01 wrote: > On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 8:36 AM, Felix Miata <mrmazda@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 2011/08/30 15:06 (GMT+1000) Chris Jones composed: > > > >> I can't see any reason for floppies these days considering their extreme > >> price per data unit as opposed to usb memory. > > > > For some people the price of floppies is a sunk cost, or was never a cost at > > all (e.g. me, who has over a hundred empty ones acquired 5, 10 or 20 years > > ago, some at 0 price). > > > > Unlike USB chips in most budgets, each floppy is cheap enough to be > > disposable after one use or dedicated to one small file. > > > > Floppies have enough room on them to write down something legible about their > > content (e.g. DOS boot with FDISK; Memtest86+ v.whatever; BIOS flash for xyz > > brand AMI BIOS; etc.) which won't interfere with insertion or removal from > > its reader. > > > > Floppies are large enough to be much less likely than a USB stick to get lost > > between couch cushions or fit through a pocket hole. > > > > Not everyone uses hardware with installed and functional OM, bootable USB or PXE. > > > > A rude installer might unset a bootable flag or fail to install boot code in > > the MBR of the only available internal storage, leaving the primary boot > > device unbootable, and a floppy the only available device to boot from > > without opening up the machine, if opening up is even any option at all. > > CD/DVD ? "Write Once Read Many"? Wait... "Write Once Read Once" in this case. Not cheap enough for that. Nils -- Nils Philippsen "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase Red Hat a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nils@xxxxxxxxxx nor Safety." -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759 PGP fingerprint: C4A8 9474 5C4C ADE3 2B8F 656D 47D8 9B65 6951 3011 -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
