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>Floppy Drive</TITLE
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TITLE="Hardware in Detail: CPU, Display, Keyboard, Sound and More"
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>Chapter 12. Hardware in Detail: CPU, Display, Keyboard, Sound and More</TD
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>12.31. Floppy Drive</H1
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>12.31.1. Linux Compatibility Check</H2
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> Usually there are no problems connecting a floppy drive to a Linux
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laptop. But with a laptop floppy drive you may sometimes not be able to
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use every feature. I encountered the <B
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CLASS="command"
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>superformat</B
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command (from the fdutils package) couldn't format more than 1.44MB with
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my HP OmniBook 800. You may also have difficulty when the floppy drive
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and CD drive are mutually exclusive, or when the floppy drive is a
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<SPAN
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>PCMCIA</SPAN
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> device (as with the Toshiba Libretto 100).
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With older laptops, there might be a minor problem if they use a 720K
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drive. As far as I know all distributions come with support for 1.44M
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(and sometimes 1.2M) floppies only. Though it's possible to install
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Linux anyway. Please see Installation chapter. Please see kernel
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documentation for boot time parameters concerning certain laptop floppy
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drives, for instance <SPAN
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>IBM</SPAN
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>™ ThinkPad. Or
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<B
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>man bootparam</B
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