From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 10 14:07:23 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E08C5B6 for ; Sun, 10 Feb 2013 14:07:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from clbuisson@orange.fr) Received: from smtp.smtpout.orange.fr (smtp02.smtpout.orange.fr [80.12.242.124]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB797EC9 for ; Sun, 10 Feb 2013 14:07:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost ([90.55.46.192]) by mwinf5d25 with ME id ye7D1k00a48n6Be03e7EgQ; Sun, 10 Feb 2013 15:07:15 +0100 Message-ID: <5117A990.7070109@orange.fr> Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2013 15:07:12 +0100 From: Claude Buisson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD i386; rv:10.0.12) Gecko/20130109 Thunderbird/10.0.12 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fbsd8 Subject: Re: Time to kill fdc ? References: <79955.1360494404@critter.freebsd.dk> <5117927C.8090204@a1poweruser.com> In-Reply-To: <5117927C.8090204@a1poweruser.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: current@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2013 14:07:23 -0000 On 02/10/2013 13:28, Fbsd8 wrote: > Poul-Henning Kamp 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. >> > Floppy drive support was removed from Freebsd around release 7.0 I > think. Read the release-notes for 6.0, 7.0 and 8.0 to determine when it > happened. Is this a joke ?? Script started on Sun Feb 10 14:47:20 2013 root@fidel:~ # uname -a FreeBSD fidel 10.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT #0: Fri Jan 18 17:45:10 CET 2013 toor@fidel:/usr/obj/home/src/sys/ADELE10X i386 root@fidel:~ # mount_msdosfs /dev/fd0 /floppy root@fidel:~ # ll /floppy total 341 -rw-rw-r-- 1 root operator 1851 Aug 15 2011 licence.txt -rw-rw-r-- 1 root operator 79175 Aug 15 2011 liesmich.html -rw-rw-r-- 1 root operator 70564 Aug 15 2011 liesmich.txt -rw-rw-r-- 1 root operator 43319 Sep 15 2011 plpbt.bin -rw-rw-r-- 1 root operator 81846 Aug 15 2011 readme.html -rw-rw-r-- 1 root operator 71509 Aug 15 2011 readme.txt root@fidel:~ # umount /floppy root@fidel:~ # dd if=/dev/fd0 of=floppy.img 2880+0 records in 2880+0 records out 1474560 bytes transferred in 48.027444 secs (30702 bytes/sec) root@fidel:~ # mount_msdosdfs /dev/fd0 /floppy root@fidel:~ # ll /floppy total 0 root@fidel:~ # umount /floppy root@fidel:~ # dd if=floppy.img of=/dev/fd0 2880+0 records in 2880+0 records out 1474560 bytes transferred in 47.829774 secs (30829 bytes/sec) root@fidel:~ # mount_msdosfs /dev/fd0 /floppy root@fidel:~ # ll /floppy total 341 -rw-rw-r-- 1 root operator 1851 Aug 15 2011 licence.txt -rw-rw-r-- 1 root operator 79175 Aug 15 2011 liesmich.html -rw-rw-r-- 1 root operator 70564 Aug 15 2011 liesmich.txt -rw-rw-r-- 1 root operator 43319 Sep 15 2011 plpbt.bin -rw-rw-r-- 1 root operator 81846 Aug 15 2011 readme.html -rw-rw-r-- 1 root operator 71509 Aug 15 2011 readme.txt root@fidel:~ # rm /floppy/* root@fidel:~ # umount /floppy with a 10 years old drive, and >10 years old floppies.. yes, there can be i/o errors with such media CBu