Tag: disks
Seagate: 30TB second-generation HAMR hard disks are almost here
The future of magnetic storage will begin in the third quarter of 2023, as Seagate has announced its latest plans to start mass production of second-generation HAMR-based hard disks. In its latest conference call for investors, the storage giant said that the launch of its newest HDD “platform” will be…
Linux Kernel Fixes Longstanding Bug in Its Handling of Floppy Disks
This isn’t the only such fix in recent years. As a series of articles on Phoronix details, there has been a slow but steady flow of fixes for the kernel’s handling of floppy drives since at least kernel 5.17, as The Register mentioned when it came out….
Back in July 2016, SUSE kernel developer Jiri Kosina submitted a patch. The problem arose because this change broke something else and later got reverted, and so the problem hung around. In July last year, he sent in a new patch that fixed it again for the 5.12 kernel, and was later back-ported to 5.10, an LTS version, and again into kernel 5.15 — another an LTS version, and the one you’re running today if you’re on the current Ubuntu LTS release, or something built from it such as Linux Mint 21….
Now, in December 2022, a new patch for the forthcoming kernel 6.2 fixes a memory leak that dates back to 5.11 or before.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
‘Last man standing’ for floppy disks reckons it’s four years ’till bust
The last man selling floppy disks says he still receives orders from airlines
Over a decade after their demise, Japan’s government declares “war” on floppy disks
Japan’s digital minister tweeted that floppies, CDs, and even mini-disks are still required for around 1,900 government procedures in which business communities submit applications and other forms. The country’s digital agency is going to bring these procedures into the modern era (or the 21st century) by allowing them to be…