On: “I would like to maintain the floppy driver”

[rbanffy]

Did Linux ever support 8" disks?

[plq → rbanffy]

IIRC 8" drives held only 1kb (yes, only 1024 bytes!) so I doubt they'd be of much use, even in the earliest days of Linux.

[FabHK → plq]

Apparently, the original 8" floppy, IBM's nicely named "Diskette 1", held around 240 KB.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk#8-inch_floppy_disk

> it was IBM's 1973 introduction of the 3740 data entry system[24] that began the establishment of floppy disks, called by IBM the "Diskette 1", as an industry standard for information interchange. The formatted diskette for this system stored 242,944 bytes

[rbanffy → FabHK]

I remember 1 megabyte floppies on some CP/M boxes. They seemed surreally large back then.