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Date:      Sun, 10 Feb 2013 14:55:47 +0000
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Hans Ottevanger <hans@beastielabs.net>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Time to kill fdc ?
Message-ID:  <80625.1360508147@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: <5117A0CD.6060904@beastielabs.net>
References:  <79955.1360494404@critter.freebsd.dk> <9EDF355D-07F7-4315-B00E-B181C674D763@gsoft.com.au> <80113.1360496675@critter.freebsd.dk> <AAE4A5DA-3565-446B-BF87-A136F18136F2@gsoft.com.au> <5117A0CD.6060904@beastielabs.net>

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In message <5117A0CD.6060904@beastielabs.net>, Hans Ottevanger writes:
>On 02/10/13 12:46, Daniel O'Connor 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 used recoverdisk, but that's not material)

>Could it be that the drive that Poul-Henning is using is worn out a bit?

No, that's not it.  It's (amongst other things) ISA-DMA being
børken (try something different that /dev null btw :-) and bounce
buffers for same panicking the system.


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