Iain Buchanan wrote: >On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 19:51 -0600, Dale wrote: > > >>Look in dmesg for something like this: >> >> >> >>>Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M >>>FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 >>> >>> >>That is what mine looks like and it should be something similiar to >>that. My floppy was made before 1991. I didn't know it was that old. >> >> > >post means after - so if this is your dmesg output, yours was made after >1991. (If the date is in fact referring to the floppy hardware) > >
< Slaps forehead. > I didn't think that drive was that old. I have some old stuff but I didn't think it was that bad. I do have a old 8088 mobo somewhere though. I recently threw out my old Vic 20 too. O_O Dale :-) -- To err is human, I'm most certainly human. I have four rigs: 1: Home built; Abit NF7 ver 2.0 w/ AMD 2500+ CPU, 1GB of ram and right now two 80GB hard drives. Named Smoker 2: Home built; Iwill KK266-R w/ AMD 1GHz CPU, 256MBs of ram and a 4GB drive. Named Swifty 3: Home built; Gigabyte GA-71XE4 w/ 800MHz CPU, 224MBs of ram and a 2.5GB drive. Named Pokey 4: Compaq Proliant 6000 Server w/ Quad 200MHz CPUs, 128MBs of ram and a 4.3GB SCSI drive. Named Putput All run Gentoo Linux, all run folding. #1 is my desktop, 2, 3, and 4 are set up as servers. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
