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Re:Tokyo police lose 2 floppy disks containing info on publi... by alerighi on Thursday December 30, 2021 @01:41PM (#29739807)
They are not reliable at all.

And if you don't want to use USB... well good luck finding a modern motherboard with a floppy disk interface. These days you obviously have to use a USB floppy disk readers. The argument of not using USB doesn't make a lot of sense, USB is not dangerous, it's how the OS is configured. Also how do you plug in mouse and keyboard, with PS2? And by the way, if you don't want to use USB at all you can use an SD card (you can find readers that are PCI express and thus don't require USB), or a CD ROM with a SATA reader, or a SATA HDD with an hotswap caddie, etc.

Re:Tokyo police lose 2 floppy disks containing info on publi... by ngcc_hk on Thursday December 30, 2021 @02:18PM (#29740301)
I found it depends upon the make. The windows 95 floppy are good. Only linux in CD-ROM at that time. Both work ok.