I second Glitch's motion. He's got it exactly right. http://www.retrotechnology.com/herbs_stuff/drive.html a popular-enough Web page on floppy drive tech, now headlines this situation. http://www.retrotechnology.com/herbs_stuff/linux_floppy.txt has a few links and brief discussion. The original posting event on the subject seems to be at the kernel.org GIT site: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=be2ece49e68361f9b56098e5df3ddbccf87d140a"> ...but did not make the news until GitHub(Torvalds) and reddit and hackaday weighed in recently. It's now a "trending" subject, whaddever that means. I don't have the chops for that work. Someone reading this, does. Don't post about "I remember"s, or "about time they killed it"s. Just. get. it. done. Regards, Herb Johnson -- Herbert R. Johnson, New Jersey in the USA http://www.retrotechnology.com OR .net preserve, recover, restore 1970's computing email: hjohnson AT retrotechnology DOT com or try later herbjohnson AT retrotechnology DOT info