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Exciting, but I can’t wait for the further updated floppy driver in the upcoming 6.2 release! https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.2-Floppy https://www.phoroni

• sedatk 4y ago
  Finally we can enjoy floppy RAIDs on Linux: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hc52_PWeU8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hc52_PWeU8
  • pantalaimon 4y ago
    I think you can already do that - this just fixed a memory leak on init failure.
    • sedatk 4y ago
      Yeah my comment was mostly tongue-in-cheek. USB floppies don't need a floppy driver anyway, and a NEC 765 controller probably supports only a few drives. It probably can't even access floppies simulatenously.
  • sph 4y ago
    Pretty slow, but I wonder if you could optimise a floppy RAID setup by pairing it with an NVMe cache. Please someone try this, I find the concept absurdly funny.
    • lucioperca 4y ago
      People laugh at this till they learn that such things exist as hardware manifestation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22428321 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22428321
• chungy 4y ago
  Better link: https://lkml.org/lkml/2022/12/4/120 https://lkml.org/lkml/2022/12/4/120