From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263269AbTKJXcj (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Nov 2003 18:32:39 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263274AbTKJXcj (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Nov 2003 18:32:39 -0500 Received: from tmr-02.dsl.thebiz.net ([216.238.38.204]:34052 "EHLO gatekeeper.tmr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263269AbTKJXch (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Nov 2003 18:32:37 -0500 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Path: gatekeeper.tmr.com!davidsen From: davidsen@tmr.com (bill davidsen) Newsgroups: mail.linux-kernel Subject: Re: Floppy in 2.6 Date: 10 Nov 2003 23:21:58 GMT Organization: TMR Associates, Schenectady NY Message-ID: References: <20031028232054.1d452baa.news.receive@zoznam.sk> X-Trace: gatekeeper.tmr.com 1068506518 7885 192.168.12.62 (10 Nov 2003 23:21:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@tmr.com Originator: davidsen@gatekeeper.tmr.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In article , =?iso-8859-1?q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?= wrote: | Jakub Krajcovic writes: | | > In 2.4 there was the option for "normal floppy support" and I have the | > /dev/fd0 device for my floppy when I boot the old 2.4.22 kernel. So my | > question is: does the 2.6 kernel support normal floppy disks or not? | > And if it does, how do I enable this support in order to use my floppy | > drive. | | It's there. In menuconfig it's "Device Drivers" -> "Block devices" -> | "Normal floppy disk support". | | Who uses floppy disks nowadays, anyway? People who are non-power users, people who support hardware devices which use them and which cost too much to scrap and replace. If I could find a good way to attach old 8 inch floppies to a PC using reasonably available hardware I would, it would allow me to retire what I use now. Since there's money in being able to do that, I do. -- bill davidsen CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.