Migrating from the Legacy Diskette Drive: Ford Motor Company Case Study

[Daniel Matthis]

Brian Kelsay wrote:

> http://www.dell.com/us/en/gen/topics/vectors_2003-ford.htm
> Dell is helping the Floppy on its way out the door.
> 
> I actually don't mind this now that the flash memory has gotten stable, 
> cheap, reliable and has way more capacity.  Luckily the USB vs. Firewire 
> fight has settled and USB won for the smaller devices w/ lower required 
> capacity.  The last step was getting the BIOS to recognize it as a boot 
> device.  What I don't understand is why a floppy drive still costs 
> $15-20.  I realize that they have come down in price and that some 
> places are cheaper than this, but still this is the average price in a 
> store.
> 
> 
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> I refrained from telling him that I doubted they could find their ass 
> with an electronic ass finder.
> 

This does raise a question I have as I've yet to try it. How easy is it 
to use one of those USB drives with Linux? Does it autoload or do you 
have to mount the device?

- Daniel