Date: Sat, 2 Oct 1999 17:14:17 +0100 (BST) From: Andrew Gordon <arg@arg1.demon.co.uk> To: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> Cc: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help... heh. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.991002171104.28624B-100000@server.arg.sj.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <37F5B124.2446D85B@newsguy.com>
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On Sat, 2 Oct 1999, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > Frankly, if the machines are networked, it would be better to have > them as diskless. The floppy drive is slow and unreliable. I don't > know if the reliability of floppies or floppy drives have decreased > as their use diminishes, or if our driver isn't much good (well, it > has never been much good, but it might have got worse), but problems > that are traced back to bad floppies are often reported. I don't think it's the driver - just that floppy drives have got worse as the price has got squeezed out. I don't think high-quality ordinary floppy drives are available any more. However, I have had good experience using LS120 drives (just using them to read ordinary floppies, ignoring their high-capacity potential). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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