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Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2013 15:13:40 +0100
From: Eivind Evensen <eivinde@terraplane.org>
To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
Subject: Re: Time to kill fdc ?
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On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 11:06:44AM +0000, 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.

I'm using DD disks about every other day and HD disks about once a week.
Apart from lots of seeking (for which  I don't understand the reason) when
closing the device in DD mode, I don't have any problems with it.
This is on 8.3-PRERELEASE.

I really hope the driver will stay.