Floppy disks at 2021?!

[Daniel Shahaf]

Ira Linux Abramov wrote on Thu, 23 Dec 2021 14:11 +00:00:
> On 2021-12-22 22:48, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
>> If it's IDE you might be able to connect a CF card to the old computer
>> with a CF<->IDE adapter?  Not sure if a 1997 vintage IDE controller
>> would be up to this.
>> 
>
>
> floppy controllers are not IDE. different connector, different 
> everything. also in the kernel it is a different major device number, 
> and the names are fd0, fd1, not hda, hdb.

I wasn't thinking of connecting a CF card to the old computer's floppy
controller.  I was rather thinking of connecting a CF card to the old
computer's IDE controller, in parallel to the existing IDE disk, to get
the contents of that computer's hard drive: i.e., copy from hda to hdb
where hdb is actually a CF card.

Cheers,

Daniel