If you are running DragonFly-current, you can get your floppy drive running again. This is actually hard to test; floppy drives are becoming an endangered species.
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A floppy drive is easy to find, a floppy disk aka a diskette, isn’t.
I have hundreds of floppies, including amiga formatted ;)
You guys don’t pile up your old things?
But I’m not sure I have a floppy drive on a 64-bit x86 system; those days was 32-bit, or 16-bit systems (or 8-bit, but this wasn’t x86, but Z80 or 6502 systems)
Ohh, my first 64-bit x86 system (athlon 64) does have a floppy, no need to fiddle HW. I will try it with current dragonfly in the Christmas days, if not before.
Nice that floppy support is resurrected.. Thanks zrj, nice with some nostalgia ;)
>> I have hundreds of floppies, including amiga formatted ;)
But how many of those are still readable vs. turning back into rust and delaminating?
Hey, very interesting question!
We will see, I will report back after my tests.
Other are welcome to do same.
Some people has some experience, it indicates that rust isn’t a problem after 15 years, see below.
But I’m closer to 30 years I think, we will see.
– How long will floppy disks maintain data integrity?
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