Bug 690276

Summary: Should support for the floppy test and related criteria be deprecated in hwcert?
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Hardware Certification Program Reporter: Rob Landry <rlandry>
Component: Policy GuideAssignee: Rob Landry <rlandry>
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Version: 6.0CC: riek, yshao
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Description Rob Landry 2011-03-23 19:04:56 UTC 
Description of problem:

Short version, floppy is all but dead.  The media will no longer be produced and it's long disappeared as a standard option.  It's worth noting that some management cards still emulate it and USB floppy drives can still be obtained; the few implementations do generally just work, and it should be a failure of basic hardware design if it doesn't vs. an OS<->hardware interoperability problem.
Comment 3 Rob Landry 2011-05-23 17:06:23 UTC 
A new catalog and policy guide version which addresses this bug is now available on the official website.  If any problems are encountered please open a bug describing the issue selecting the "Red Hat Hardware Certification Program" product.