Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2013 15:32:42 +0100 From: "C. P. Ghost" <cpghost@cordula.ws> To: Fbsd8 <fbsd8@a1poweruser.com> Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Time to kill fdc ? Message-ID: <CADGWnjV97p_r3wQadeQscsEAjP1qB44uX3dQEFw6UWSDHvC3vQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5117927C.8090204@a1poweruser.com> References: <79955.1360494404@critter.freebsd.dk> <5117927C.8090204@a1poweruser.com>
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On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 1:28 PM, Fbsd8 <fbsd8@a1poweruser.com> wrote:
> Floppy drive support was removed from Freebsd around release 7.0 I think.
> Read the release-notes for 6.0, 7.0 and 8.0 to determine when it happened.
Nope, floppy support is still there, and AFAICS it is working just fine:
Script started on Sun Feb 10 15:21:07 2013
root@phenom:~ # uname -a
FreeBSD phenom.cordula.ws 9.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 9.1-PRERELEASE #0
r244903: Mon Dec 31 15:14:32 CET 2012
root@phenom.cordula.ws:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64
root@phenom:~ # fdformat /dev/fd0
Format 1440K floppy `/dev/fd0'? (y/n): y
Processing VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV done.
root@phenom:~ # newfs /dev/fd0
/dev/fd0: 1.4MB (2880 sectors) block size 32768, fragment size 4096
using 2 cylinder groups of 1.00MB, 32 blks, 128 inodes.
super-block backups (for fsck_ffs -b #) at:
192, 2240
root@phenom:~ # mount /dev/fd0 /mnt
root@phenom:~ # df -h /mnt
Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/fd0 1.1M 8.0k 1.0M 1% /mnt
root@phenom:~ # cp /usr/include/sys/_*.h /mnt
root@phenom:~ # sync
root@phenom:~ # df -h /mnt
Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/fd0 1.1M 112k 948k 11% /mnt
root@phenom:~ # ls /mnt
.snap _null.h _sx.h
_bus_dma.h _pthreadtypes.h _task.h
_callout.h _rmlock.h _termios.h
_cpuset.h _rwlock.h _timespec.h
_iovec.h _semaphore.h _timeval.h
_kstack_cache.h _sigset.h _types.h
_lock.h _sockaddr_storage.h _umtx.h
_lockmgr.h _stack.h
_mutex.h _stdint.h
root@phenom:~ # umount /mnt
root@phenom:~ # exit
exit
Script done on Sun Feb 10 15:26:10 2013
This was with an 10+ years old 1.44MB floppy that I had
lying around here, on FreeBSD/amd64 9.1 r244903.
It would be a shame to axe that code.
-cpghost.
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