Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2013 20:11:06 +0000 (UTC) From: Marcin Cieslak <saper@saper.info> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Time to kill fdc ? Message-ID: <slrnkhfvmt.1191.saper@saper.info> References: <79955.1360494404@critter.freebsd.dk>
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>> Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> 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. Yes, I did try at the time 9 was current (to make fancy DOS floppies for BIOS for the old machine). I remember I only had an issue with PCMCIA-attached floppy drive (that uses fdc(4) afair), which didn't work then (but I am user I used those long time ago). Maybe the issue you are seeing is similar to my PCMCIA-based floppy problem - I'd be happy to have it fixed for recovery of old boxes. (Will test -current on my ancient box tomorrow) //Marcin
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