Re: USB Floppy drive compatibility?
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 03:35:18PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> I'm considering replacing the broken floppy drive on my Toshiba
> Satellite 4000 with a USB FDD. USB is working on this machine for
> scanner and downloading camera pictures. Can I assume it will also
> work for the drive? Experience, anyone?
I've was using USB floppy drives for a while with little to no problem
under Linux. The main concern is whether your system's BIOS will
support booting from it (that is if you need that functionality).
Recently, I've stopped putting floppy drives (of any kind) into any of
my new systems.
--
Jamin W. Collins
This is the typical unix way of doing things: you string together lots
of very specific tools to accomplish larger tasks. -- Vineet Kumar
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