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From: Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@c2i.net>
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Subject: Re: Time to kill fdc ?
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On Sunday 10 February 2013 12:06:44 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.

As long as you leave room for USB floppy disks working.

--HPS