From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 10 14:32:44 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 86D16B1D for ; Sun, 10 Feb 2013 14:32:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cpghost@cordula.ws) Received: from mail-la0-x229.google.com (mail-la0-x229.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4010:c03::229]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04BF2B0 for ; Sun, 10 Feb 2013 14:32:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-la0-f41.google.com with SMTP id fo12so5119731lab.28 for ; Sun, 10 Feb 2013 06:32:43 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:x-received:x-originating-ip:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type:x-gm-message-state; bh=Nx1cZhJ8j13Wasb5Tb+Dk6Af2SvGrr5yrHGybQsrZ+s=; b=Xeytf91a43gJpJ2T5dXZgGeTMty7RnYT2vWCNPmGcVSCxXz6wVzeLO5ueT5G7aA65I JkWumG9T2VVRhC5W/w/wMzCd/9/6xlSMf9amw4CNu0pTI/Zwlf54qTPh5/uislihU1bb 3FbFP7RqagyPtnLwLJhJVF6qiVFKaUzhmIfD5dxxIei+EOilShnHLzJ4wVJYOesJVosv XmcPMrc83N/KTusL9hNQb53Ngd1fgFNU5YzLmhaVQCblbaZAwqj+75O5TIaqAs5CRsII Z5Mqlekloym9c0ViKeTWBzoACPyHVt1krlpR4tgZDLgnUsO/lSL9rtncfVyotxwVVQDE LLGA== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.112.44.164 with SMTP id f4mr4629363lbm.43.1360506762811; Sun, 10 Feb 2013 06:32:42 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.112.45.36 with HTTP; Sun, 10 Feb 2013 06:32:42 -0800 (PST) X-Originating-IP: [93.221.166.206] In-Reply-To: <5117927C.8090204@a1poweruser.com> References: <79955.1360494404@critter.freebsd.dk> <5117927C.8090204@a1poweruser.com> Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2013 15:32:42 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Time to kill fdc ? From: "C. P. Ghost" To: Fbsd8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQmm9FMv5kK4wYNu8F/2yuyPDN3vxFiBJGekkFgtv0AMAUQZ3JRy60zmc2/PRdCzuzQ3DM6Q Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp , 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 14:32:44 -0000 On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 1:28 PM, Fbsd8 wrote: > 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. Nope, floppy support is still there, and AFAICS it is working just fine: Script started on Sun Feb 10 15:21:07 2013 root@phenom:~ # uname -a FreeBSD phenom.cordula.ws 9.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 9.1-PRERELEASE #0 r244903: Mon Dec 31 15:14:32 CET 2012 root@phenom.cordula.ws:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 root@phenom:~ # fdformat /dev/fd0 Format 1440K floppy `/dev/fd0'? (y/n): y Processing VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV done. root@phenom:~ # newfs /dev/fd0 /dev/fd0: 1.4MB (2880 sectors) block size 32768, fragment size 4096 using 2 cylinder groups of 1.00MB, 32 blks, 128 inodes. super-block backups (for fsck_ffs -b #) at: 192, 2240 root@phenom:~ # mount /dev/fd0 /mnt root@phenom:~ # df -h /mnt Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/fd0 1.1M 8.0k 1.0M 1% /mnt root@phenom:~ # cp /usr/include/sys/_*.h /mnt root@phenom:~ # sync root@phenom:~ # df -h /mnt Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/fd0 1.1M 112k 948k 11% /mnt root@phenom:~ # ls /mnt .snap _null.h _sx.h _bus_dma.h _pthreadtypes.h _task.h _callout.h _rmlock.h _termios.h _cpuset.h _rwlock.h _timespec.h _iovec.h _semaphore.h _timeval.h _kstack_cache.h _sigset.h _types.h _lock.h _sockaddr_storage.h _umtx.h _lockmgr.h _stack.h _mutex.h _stdint.h root@phenom:~ # umount /mnt root@phenom:~ # exit exit Script done on Sun Feb 10 15:26:10 2013 This was with an 10+ years old 1.44MB floppy that I had lying around here, on FreeBSD/amd64 9.1 r244903. It would be a shame to axe that code. -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/