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[peter b <441835@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

@ Martin,

the sad part is that the new, potential future ubuntu users are
immediately/(or later when discovered) discouraged using it because of
lack of support for the so called 'too old' devices; they will prefer
instead using ms win.

Martin, pls do not look at what follows as an intrusion into your good
efforts in resolving this issue; contrary, pls look at it strictly from
future ubuntu users thoughts and minds re open source and its benefits
vis-a-vis for pay proprietary os's

AND, not least at the current users community

you have the code related to this;  I wrote code before quite
extensively (for sure not in the latest and greatest languages but the
basics are still there with little changes ) ; I may be wrong in this
but pls check my thoughts out and take a look at the floppy drive/device
probing procedure code and maybe introduce a timer in device call
loop/iterations and based on the feedback (y or n) obtained introduce an
if/else decision followed by a goto statement to the corresponding line
of code that will either configure or not configure the device (or maybe
call another file/s with the conf procedures). pls tell me what's your
opinion - will it do the trick ?

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