Deprecating / Removing floppy drive support

[Gary Jennejohn]

On Sun, 03 Dec 2017 10:27:57 +0000
"Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk at phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:

> --------
> In message <43746890-e60a-5c8f-4c77-bbfe9a5a6aa9 at selasky.org>, Hans Petter Selasky writes:
> 
> >I think as long as you can read and write USB floppy drives under 
> >FreeBSD, this change is OK. Even though floppies are old-tech they are 
> >still important:
> >
> >https://news.slashdot.org/story/16/05/25/2054255/us-military-uses-8-inch-floppy-disks-to-coordinate-nuclear-force-operations  
> 
> Incidentally FreeBSD is/was the only modern OS which could
> still read 8" floppies.
> 

Really?  I still have an 8" drive and floppies laying around.  But try
to find a controller for a modern computer which doesn't even have one
for a 3-1/2" floppy drive..

-- 
Gary Jennejohn