WTF?! NO floppy in Lucid or in Meerkat!

[Rashkae]

Stephen Bungay wrote:
> 
> On 09/24/2010 02:35 AM, Basil Chupin wrote:
>> I've busted my balls over the past 2 days trying to figure out why my
>>
>> floppy will not be recognised and display the contents of a floppy disc.
>>
>> I need the floppy to be able to flash the BIOS on a pre-loved mobo I
>> bought 2 weeks ago.
>>
> 
>    Surprising the user-base with stuff like this is just wrong. While 
> 1.44MB is no longer a useful amount for the bloatware of today, there 
> are legacy systems to port and a real need for the humble floppy disc to 
> be available for use. The lunacy of the argument for removing it becomes 
> apparent when you consider that a USB floppy-disk drive works perfectly.
> 

I think you misunderstand.  Floppy support was not intentionally killed 
per say.  Just an unfortunate effect of letting 'developers' with no 
access to a system that has a floppy drive for testing fiddle with the 
floppy mounting code to fix a boot delay issue.

Not that I'm happy with the course of these events, but to play the 
devil's advocate, I can guarantee that systems built with no floppy 
drive (but with a BIOS configuration of one) are far more common place 
than people still using floppies.  So while unfortunate that this was 
'fixed' by completely unqualified people, I can see the how's and why's 
of it.