* Re: Merge branch 'floppy'
@ 2019-07-31 20:36 Alex Henrie
2019-08-07 14:17 ` Denis Efremov
2019-08-08 9:27 ` Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
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From: Alex Henrie @ 2019-07-31 20:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: LKML, Linus Torvalds, Denis Efremov
> Actual working physical floppy hardware is getting hard to find, and
> while Willy was able to test this, I think the driver can be considered
> pretty much dead from an actual hardware standpoint.
Just for the record: I have an Ubuntu machine, still in daily use,
that has a floppy disk connector on the motherboard. The motherboard
was made in 2006 if I remember correctly and has a quad-core Intel
CPU. It has both a 3.5" and a 5.25" drive installed and they get used
every time somebody finds another pile of floppy disks in Grandpa's
garage.
I'd be happy to test floppy driver changes on this hardware if anyone
needs me to.
-Alex
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* Re: Merge branch 'floppy'
2019-07-31 20:36 Merge branch 'floppy' Alex Henrie
@ 2019-08-07 14:17 ` Denis Efremov
2019-08-08 9:27 ` Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
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From: Denis Efremov @ 2019-08-07 14:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Alex Henrie, LKML
On 7/31/19 11:36 PM, Alex Henrie wrote:
>> Actual working physical floppy hardware is getting hard to find, and
>> while Willy was able to test this, I think the driver can be considered
>> pretty much dead from an actual hardware standpoint.
>
> Just for the record: I have an Ubuntu machine, still in daily use,
> that has a floppy disk connector on the motherboard. The motherboard
> was made in 2006 if I remember correctly and has a quad-core Intel
> CPU. It has both a 3.5" and a 5.25" drive installed and they get used
> every time somebody finds another pile of floppy disks in Grandpa's
> garage.
>
> I'd be happy to test floppy driver changes on this hardware if anyone
> needs me to.
>
Hi, Alex!
It's good to know that you could help with testing.
Thank you!
Denis
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* Re: Merge branch 'floppy'
2019-07-31 20:36 Merge branch 'floppy' Alex Henrie
2019-08-07 14:17 ` Denis Efremov
@ 2019-08-08 9:27 ` Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
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From: Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult @ 2019-08-08 9:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Alex Henrie, LKML, Linus Torvalds, Denis Efremov
On 31.07.19 22:36, Alex Henrie wrote:
> Just for the record: I have an Ubuntu machine, still in daily use,
> that has a floppy disk connector on the motherboard. The motherboard
> was made in 2006 if I remember correctly and has a quad-core Intel
> CPU. It has both a 3.5" and a 5.25" drive installed and they get used
> every time somebody finds another pile of floppy disks in Grandpa's
> garage.
I also have a stack of floppy drives (3.5'' and 5.25'') in storage,
and several machines with fdd ports (also classic ISA and IDE ports).
Haven't turned them on for long time, but should still be working.
If anyone's interested in the HW, just let me know.
--mtx
--
Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
Free software and Linux embedded engineering
info@metux.net -- +49-151-27565287
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