From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 11 11:28:33 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31724695 for ; Mon, 11 Feb 2013 11:28:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cpghost@cordula.ws) Received: from mail-la0-x22d.google.com (la-in-x022d.1e100.net [IPv6:2a00:1450:4010:c03::22d]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2F2F1ED1 for ; Mon, 11 Feb 2013 11:28:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-la0-f45.google.com with SMTP id er20so5728783lab.32 for ; Mon, 11 Feb 2013 03:28:31 -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=8pS4iHxqUjtKrTf6uRX6ZovYr8FC29R+v5BJK4QXcIc=; b=nmmgzVEU6XDaS3pAbAiYOOM25nqBijIGWHL2Km1XG1FFwZyI1bxXoNxSIpTigYzNf0 GKJVbkPMvJnEsedob3fLFI7eBa688lbkdJwBO9RU7I7ezusu+GkFaGhkD0DezOT0wf4L A5ofmhSlzQjrUXvWNyh1YdhWg6DKL+bYgjZIBv78/RnDdT34CaqgES1R03qlJsYiyM/K uqqXMibgPMIuW1RqLWODb+XPyLTNIdtHXuRjWcWxJOJ2riLoSNZMjCssTn4ZcI8rP2Me Z7J40ODD1nzhoLdVNDy9e/bT2DCkOZ1Ze/VTSSb71JUDJkgRjEwDMFCEGgRmqvgHy92O wVpg== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.112.30.104 with SMTP id r8mr5667151lbh.82.1360582111677; Mon, 11 Feb 2013 03:28:31 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.112.45.36 with HTTP; Mon, 11 Feb 2013 03:28:31 -0800 (PST) X-Originating-IP: [93.221.175.200] In-Reply-To: <80625.1360508147@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <79955.1360494404@critter.freebsd.dk> <9EDF355D-07F7-4315-B00E-B181C674D763@gsoft.com.au> <80113.1360496675@critter.freebsd.dk> <5117A0CD.6060904@beastielabs.net> <80625.1360508147@critter.freebsd.dk> Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 12:28:31 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Time to kill fdc ? From: "C. P. Ghost" To: Poul-Henning Kamp Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQn63qH+ab1RdOd0af1OIrIzlKHYekhcWd1r0PhCH4bB+Hvf5jTo73Noc5T/NOg9dC7//Aif 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: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 11:28:33 -0000 On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 3:55 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >>But I just did an experiment on an old Pentium 4 system here, using the >>fdc driver and 8.3-STABLE as of early December (r243900). I read several >>diskettes using "dd /dev/fd0 /dev/null" and everything went flawlessly. > > Could you try: > > dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/dev/null bs=1048576 > > That consistently exploded 7.x and 8.x here yesterday... I've just tried this on my FreeBSD 9.1 amd64 r244903 system 10 times in a row, and nothing bad happened. Regards, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/