Floppies and Maverick

[David Fletcher]

Somebody started a thread a while back, about not being able to use
floppies with Ubuntu. The motherboard I just used to build a new system
doesn't have a floppy drive interface anyway.

For anybody who needs to retrieve files from 3.5 inch floppies, I would
suggest they try installing an LS-120 (otherwise known as superdisk)
drive. They connect into an IDE interface, of which the new motherboard
still has just one. The BIOS on this Asus board still knows about LS-120
drives.

Works for me!

There's a couple of drives listed on ebay right now. I wouldn't bother
with the disks though - I never found them to be very reliable.

Dave