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Date:      Sun, 10 Feb 2013 13:15:02 +0000
From:      "Teske, Devin" <Devin.Teske@fisglobal.com>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>, "current@freebsd.org" <current@freebsd.org>
Cc:        "Teske, Devin" <Devin.Teske@fisglobal.com>
Subject:   RE: Time to kill fdc ?
Message-ID:  <13CA24D6AB415D428143D44749F57D7201EA6BE0@ltcfiswmsgmb21>
In-Reply-To: <79955.1360494404@critter.freebsd.dk>
References:  <79955.1360494404@critter.freebsd.dk>

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On Sun, 10 Feb 2013, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

> I tried to read a floppy disk yesterday.
>=20
> When was the last time anybody tried that with a FreeBSD release ?
>=20

I did it last week on 9.0-R. Worked great.

(I have more than plans to continue supporting floppies -- I've actually wr=
itten code in the past 3 weeks supporting floppies as a test-case called fo=
r it; commit still pending)


> 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.
>=20
> 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 was using 9.0-R, admittedly far from -CURRENT. Sad because my up-coming H=
EAD commit was tested on 9.0-R -- if fdc is broken in CURRENT I need to ret=
hink things (especially if you're dusting off your axe).
--=20
Devin

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