Floppy disks at 2021?!

[Steve Litt]

Ira Linux Abramov said on Thu, 23 Dec 2021 16:11:05 +0200

>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.

Yes, if I remember correctly the floppy cable connectors are smaller and
they have that little twist, for some of the conductors, between two
connectors.

SteveT

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