[haiku-development] Re: Future Haiku Features

> 2009/7/28 Gerald Zajac <zajacg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > Will floppy disk drives be supported at some point, or are they
> > considered
> > to be too archaic to be worth supporting?
> >
> > -- Gerald
> >
> >
> >
>
> I plan to work on it someday... but i'll go for my usb-floppy drive
> which is very different from regular floppies. Unfortunately I don't
> have a computer capable of running Haiku and still having a floppy
> drive...
> I guess they are actually becoming archaic...

Aren't usb floppies actually ATAPI devices or something alike ?

I planned originally to split the pc driver into an FDC bus manager and
a floppy driver, but I never did.
Cleanest would likely to move it to the new architecture where it would
publish an fdc node and drive nodes, and have an usb version of the fdc
node.

François.

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