Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 12:28:31 +0100 From: "C. P. Ghost" <cpghost@cordula.ws> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Time to kill fdc ? Message-ID: <CADGWnjVmDM0GqpHygFo4AzOYwcrRa1%2BwBFvwt34-0hbY2hCFzw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <80625.1360508147@critter.freebsd.dk> 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> <80625.1360508147@critter.freebsd.dk>
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On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 3:55 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> 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've just tried this on my FreeBSD 9.1 amd64 r244903 system 10 times in a row, and nothing bad happened. Regards, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/
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