WTF?! NO floppy in Lucid or in Meerkat!

[Chadley Wilson]

I must agree with Tom,
Your PC is only as fast as its slowest component. Stiffy drives are really slow.


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com [mailto:ubuntu-users-
> bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Tom H
> Sent: 25 September 2010 08:01 PM
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: Re: WTF?! NO floppy in Lucid or in Meerkat!
>
> On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 1:17 PM, Rashkae <ubuntu at tigershaunt.com> wrote:
> > 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.
>
> How can they be "completely unqualified people" is they fixed a problem that
> affects more people than those who need to use a floppy drive?! This
> problem mustn't be resolvable to everyone's satisfaction if the developers
> chose to go this route (whether they have/had access to a box with a floppy
> or not.
>
> IIRC, Fedora 11 introduced code to prevent probing for a floppy drive
> because it slowed down boot; it's a logical thing to do if you are to cater for
> the majority and not the minority. I assume that Fedora now has the same
> floppy-drive problems but since I haven't used a floppy disk/drive in at least
> ten years, I don't know.
>
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