Floppy disc reader/writer status report

But USB has been Agreed. I *HATE* USB devices. Aside from being a royal pain and unreliable, it's definitely not Universal, and it's not really much of a Bus either. I tried using external USB 2.0 hard drives on a Macintosh once, but every time I touched grounded metal (the case, power strip, keyboard frame) in the vicinity, all the USB drives unmounted. Yes, and more reliable too. I once used one of those ESDI->SCSI interface boards to connect an ESDI hard drive to my Macintosh G4. It worked. And ever used a really recent PC clone? They have done away with almost all I/O. No RS232C, no parallel, no keyboard or mouse ports, it's all USB. I had to set one up as a server, and wasted a half a day trying to get a modem working for the fax dial-in. We couldn't use the nice external modem because it was RS232C. I tried a USB->RS232 converter but could never get the firmware to load properly under Linux. The crappy internal WinModem wouldn't work under Linux. The machine has no ISA slots, so no nice hardware internal modem. Can't find a hardware PCI modem. One of the guys bought some commercial Linux WinModem driver, and it almost worked, but was really unreliable. We kept the old fax server. A Pentium 100. -Ian