Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2013 14:27:39 +0100 From: "C. P. Ghost" <cpghost@cordula.ws> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Time to kill fdc ? Message-ID: <CADGWnjUn66K_Ngwn0Y_wyqX=RTT13h2FC23NeBH3WqNBBwd%2BXw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <79955.1360494404@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <79955.1360494404@critter.freebsd.dk>
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On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 12:06 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> wrote: > > I tried to read a floppy disk yesterday. > > When was the last time anybody tried that with a FreeBSD release ? > > Based on my brief experiments yesterday, 6.X is the last release > where accessing floppy disks carry less than a 10% risk of a panic. > > Unless somebody fixes the fdc driver to work in -current, I intend > to dust of my axe and cut it from the tree later this spring. Any chance to get a user-mode fdc(4) replacement then? Maybe in ports? -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/
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