Re: [Devil-linux-develop] New 1.3 testing release.

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

On Mon, November 5, 2007 15:33, Arnaud Gomes-do-Vale wrote:
> Bruce Smith <bw...@ar...> writes:
>
>
>> The thing I've found with floppies is they are very unreliable.  I
>> actually had to find a different machine because two of the three
>> machines I tried, the floppy drive didn't work.  And there is always
>> the high rate of media failure problems.  Perhaps the original poster is
>>  having a related problem?
>
> I didn't have a floppy in the drive, and AFAIR the drive light stayed
> off. I will try to find out more tomorrow; at the moment, as Devil issues
> proper seem to have been ruled out, I suspect either broken or badly
> supported hardware. More probably broken as the drive has probably not
> been used in years.

Yeah my floppy drives get rarely used either.
The only 'floppy drives' I'm using are the virtual ones in VMWare. ;-)

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  Heiko Zuerker
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