From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 10 11:43:09 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 A89A0977 for ; Sun, 10 Feb 2013 11:43:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 309FA81F for ; Sun, 10 Feb 2013 11:43:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ur.dons.net.au (ppp118-210-73-50.lns20.adl2.internode.on.net [118.210.73.50]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.14.4/8.14.3) with ESMTP id r1ABgiaP059614 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Sun, 10 Feb 2013 22:12:53 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 6.2 \(1499\)) Subject: Re: Time to kill fdc ? From: "Daniel O'Connor" In-Reply-To: <79955.1360494404@critter.freebsd.dk> Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2013 22:12:44 +1030 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <9EDF355D-07F7-4315-B00E-B181C674D763@gsoft.com.au> References: <79955.1360494404@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Poul-Henning Kamp X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1499) X-Spam-Score: 0.163 () BAYES_00,RDNS_DYNAMIC X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.67 on 203.31.81.10 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: Sun, 10 Feb 2013 11:43:09 -0000 On 10/02/2013, at 21:36, 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've used it in 7.x to read install.cfg for a semi automated install process. I didn't see any panics, but then again install.cfg is a pretty small file. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C