From: Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: fdutils.
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 10:08:05 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200111141308.fAED85k6012767@pincoya.inf.utfsm.cl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl> of "Tue, 13 Nov 2001 21:52:40 BST." <Pine.GSO.3.96.1011113214448.11222E-100000@delta.ds2.pg.gda.pl>
"Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl> said:
[....]
> You only confirm what I wrote -- hardly anyone uses floppies, so there is
> no need to keep mechanical compatibility in devices -- a complete dump of
> 1.44" FD support would be almost harmless. Hence whether a Zip or a
> LS-120 -- it doesn't really matter. You need new media anyway.
"Hardly anyone" includes 100% of the people I know. Not exactly heavy use,
mostly occasional transport of files and for emergency booting. Heck,
_every_ machine I see around me here has a floppy drive, can't just throw
that away because _you_ don't like it. The alternatives are extremely
expensive and so rare as to be almost useless around here.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-11-14 13:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-11-13 9:11 fdutils Rajiv Malik
2001-11-13 16:44 ` fdutils Keith Owens
2001-11-13 18:28 ` fdutils H. Peter Anvin
2001-11-13 19:42 ` fdutils Maciej W. Rozycki
2001-11-13 19:57 ` fdutils H. Peter Anvin
2001-11-13 20:12 ` fdutils Maciej W. Rozycki
2001-11-13 20:42 ` fdutils H. Peter Anvin
2001-11-13 20:52 ` fdutils Maciej W. Rozycki
2001-11-13 21:02 ` fdutils H. Peter Anvin
2001-11-13 21:45 ` fdutils Richard B. Johnson
2001-11-14 0:22 ` fdutils Pascal Schmidt
2001-11-14 0:23 ` fdutils H. Peter Anvin
2001-11-14 0:37 ` fdutils Pascal Schmidt
2001-11-14 0:50 ` fdutils Riley Williams
2001-11-14 1:30 ` fdutils CaT
2001-11-14 1:35 ` fdutils H. Peter Anvin
2001-11-15 0:40 ` fdutils Riley Williams
2001-11-15 0:51 ` fdutils CaT
2001-11-15 1:09 ` fdutils Riley Williams
2001-11-15 6:23 ` fdutils CaT
2001-11-15 1:15 ` fdutils H. Peter Anvin
2001-11-14 2:20 ` fdutils Mr. James W. Laferriere
2001-11-14 2:18 ` fdutils. (Was Re: [Q] pivot_root and initrd) Mr. James W. Laferriere
2001-11-14 12:18 ` fdutils Maciej W. Rozycki
2001-11-13 22:03 ` fdutils Gerhard Mack
2001-11-14 12:20 ` fdutils Maciej W. Rozycki
2001-11-14 15:25 ` fdutils Gerhard Mack
2001-11-14 13:08 ` Horst von Brand [this message]
2001-11-14 14:01 ` fdutils Maciej W. Rozycki
2001-11-15 22:51 ` fdutils Kai Henningsen
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-11-16 10:26 fdutils Rajiv Malik
2001-11-13 7:35 fdutils Rajiv Malik
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