Deprecating / Removing floppy drive support

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

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In message <20171203120028.32f84314 at ernst.home>, Gary Jennejohn writes:
>On Sun, 03 Dec 2017 10:27:57 +0000

>> Incidentally FreeBSD is/was the only modern OS which could
>> still read 8" floppies.
>> 
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>Really?  I still have an 8" drive and floppies laying around.  But try
>to find a controller for a modern computer which doesn't even have one
>for a 3-1/2" floppy drive..

I'm not saying it is worth it, there are better data-preservation tools
than FreeBSD for this.  Check out the "Kryoflux" for instance.

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