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Date:      Sun, 10 Feb 2013 12:38:29 -0800
From:      Jeff Anton <antonfb@hesiod.org>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Time to kill fdc ?
Message-ID:  <51180545.8030702@hesiod.org>

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Please keep fdc.  I have many machines which still have working drives 
and only last month I used one to make a bootable to update a machines 
boot prom.  I've even got 5 1/2" disk which still work.  (Original MSDOS 
5.0 and Windows 3.1 disks...)

atlas.hesiod.org:root[1]: dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/dev/null bs=32k
45+0 records in
45+0 records out
1474560 bytes transferred in 48.169721 secs (30612 bytes/sec)
atlas.hesiod.org:root[2]: uname -a
FreeBSD atlas.hesiod.org 9.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE #1 r244037: Fri 
Dec 21 15:09:03 PST 2012 
root@atlas.hesiod.org:/usr/src/sys/amd64/compile/ATLAS  amd64



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