Linux 5.17 Lands Fix For Hanging If Ejecting A Broken Floppy

[Slartifartblast]

Please support floppies. They aren't practical, but digital recovery and preservation makes it a necessity.

There's hardware floppy emulators such as Gotek ones, but sometimes you need to read something from a damn floppy.

The same about ancient and unused filesystems, there's a niche for being able to read them natively. And recovery companies are extremely expensive.

Oddly the older you get it's hard drives you remember with nostalgia, not floppies.

[sinepgib]

Some of you ever called those "diskettes" back then? We did it here in Brazil, but I don't remember reading or hearing English speakers calling those "diskettes", just "floppies".

In Argentina we all call them diskettes.

[onlyLinuxLuvUBack]

How about actually fixing the stupid two decades-old issue of having the entire Linux kernel hang when trying to unmount a drive that has been improperly removed, or a disconnected network share?

Hell, Windows never had a problem with such things since day one.

have you tried eject dvd data disc with bad section and watch windows blow up ?

[Alejandro Nova]

They are a must for keyboardists. If you have 80's and 90's keyboards around, you must have a floppy disk drive. Sometimes a FDD emulator is simply too expensive or unavailable.

[ssokolow]

They are a must for keyboardists. If you have 80's and 90's keyboards around, you must have a floppy disk drive. Sometimes a FDD emulator is simply too expensive or unavailable.

Is that due to the firmware or the physical shape/interface? ...because, if it's the former, the FlashFloppy project provides a replacement firmware for "whichever Gotek floppy emulator with the right physical connector and LCD is cheapest on eBay wherever you are" that supports a bunch of those.

(Spoiler: The Gotek floppy emulators are effectively STM32F5 development boards. Just open them up with a bog-standard small Phillips screwdriver, bridge a couple of contacts to put them in programming mode, plug into your PC with a USB A-A cable, and flash with a standard DFU flashing tool. I soldered some pin header on to make it simpler when reflashing mine for my Atari ST, but the instructions show it without any soldering.)

[hoohoo]

Some of you ever called those "diskettes" back then? We did it here in Brazil, but I don't remember reading or hearing English speakers calling those "diskettes", just "floppies".

Diskette was often used here in Canada for 3.5" disks.

[ssokolow]

Diskette was often used here in Canada for 3.5" disks.

*nod* Probably because French is our second official language... though that's not a guarantee. See, for example, how we follow the American choice to say Zucchini rather than the British Courgette. (The Italian and French for "baby marrow", respectively.)

[uxmkt]

WoW , i thought Floppies were Dead

One could say they.. flopped in the long run.