Deprecating / Removing floppy drive support

Sun Dec 3 11:56:46 UTC 2017

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In message <20171203113341.GA68792 at ravenloft.kiev.ua>, Alex Kozlov writes:
>On Sun, Dec 03, 2017 at 12:00:28PM +0100, Gary Jennejohn wrote:
>> On Sun, 03 Dec 2017 10:27:57 +0000
>> "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk at phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:
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>> > Incidentally FreeBSD is/was the only modern OS which could
>> > still read 8" floppies.

>Well, with proper* cable you can connect 8" drive to fdc and read
>it pretty much on any OS that supports floppies.

Uhm... no ?

Very few OS's have had 8" format compatible settings since CP/M
and even fewer handle the track46 pin correctly on write.

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