puppyfloppydetect for testing

[BarryK]

This is a little program that detects if a floppy drive is present.
I am particularly interested to know what it reports for those computers that do
not have a floppy drive!
Detects internal floppy drive only, not usb.
Works on puppy1 and puppy2.

Get it from here:
http://www.puppyos.com/test/

Uncompress it:

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# gunzip puppyfloppydetect.gz
# chmod 755 puppyfloppydetect

Then execute it:

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# ./puppyfloppydetect 2>/dev/null

[Lobster]

Thanks for posting the code on how to do this (already forgot)
I am running this from 109 Alpha 1

Set up is DVD ROM, 2HD, SDA but no floppy
I have Puppy2 Alpha 5 available and Singer 108r1
but I hope this will be sufficient

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# ./puppyfloppydetect 2>/dev/null
Type:H1440|Port:/dev/fd0

Some very exciting stuff going on . . .
2.6 kernel, MU's graphic prog, auto detection of mice, webcam detection, 1.09 etc

Any news on broadband for you Barry? There was a possibility . . .

[kirk]

Barry,
Tried it on my Dell latitude 640 laptop with the external floppy not connected, reports:

Type:H1440|Port:/dev/fd0

[BarryK]

Grumble, grumble, okay, it's still not right, must be reporting the floppy
interface rather than the drive itself.
That is, your PCs must have the interface on the motherboard, just no floppy
drives connected.

No need for any more reports, I have to go back and do some more research.