![]() I'm sure that one will continue to be "supported" for a while as it uses a different driver that will likely be maintained for a while (usb_storage). The only known working floppy drive I have now is a 3.5" USB unit. Do all those fd0XCCCC entries still connect to the kernel? When I modprobed floppy, I don't see them, was wondering if udev supported them anymore or simply an ioctl is needed to specify the format. I remember all those fd0XCCCC entries in /dev. I only kept a boot-disk for my old pentium pc. I didn't find it, today I threw them away. I scanned over 100 diskettes yesterday looking for a program I wrote 20 years ago. Those that have never had a hard drive fail. I also have all the old fashioned /dev nodes to format floppies. ![]() I did read a set of Windows 3.1 and DOS 6.2 disks a while ago, so reading 3 1/2" floppies worked then. I have all the bits and pieces to test both 5 1/4" and 3 1/2" floppies, except for the 2.88Mb format. I have a lot of defective diskettes, but when it works, I can access them with mtools. Seems sys-apps/util-linux requries USE=fdformat to get the low level formatter program for Linux. Unfortunately I don't know if it's the drive or the driver. I was trying to test my Epson SD800 dual drive and couldn't read a single sector. Posted: Tue 3:10 pm Post subject: Floppy support? Gentoo Forums Forum Index Kernel & Hardware ![]() Gentoo Forums :: View topic - Floppy support? ![]()
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