From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 11 18:36:50 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10FFA5A1 for ; Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:36:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from adrian.chadd@gmail.com) Received: from mail-wi0-f175.google.com (mail-wi0-f175.google.com [209.85.212.175]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D8BA61A for ; Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:36:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wi0-f175.google.com with SMTP id l13so3508973wie.8 for ; Mon, 11 Feb 2013 10:36:48 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:x-received:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=tKfhXW2cGZfyzotmyhU/iJMbWQtbD2O5Xk59K3tof2I=; b=UlX3LqODERvIr2wnzksj1TdiBWWIm8pByUOFI2+KXumlK20vsHfVcukUfCOHHmBSKl zA4EJKW9xZd1ZBbe/wmBOvp850Esfuw9JhiDz42rsVweVali0JCbOyzEQcVuKhRO2jKG pBss8OD2c9gNiyO224KwrORcLGTcLfMO2gbMTv83iog7RLBaOaaZ+xxwEJJ9CrDmgE4K r99ErSa379kWSXtZ+Tg2LV8t4HdTxZiokKssjOzxMAw2teT1DD4unzIuheN7Z8Z5vI6u frtvI+yn81I+EfiOtDzyPvXHNfWq1eU8OrhHYAxR9uCME/qDeIhXldHUiw1g5oJMvuFi SPoQ== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.181.12.103 with SMTP id ep7mr17883179wid.12.1360607808302; Mon, 11 Feb 2013 10:36:48 -0800 (PST) Sender: adrian.chadd@gmail.com Received: by 10.216.236.88 with HTTP; Mon, 11 Feb 2013 10:36:47 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <79955.1360494404@critter.freebsd.dk> <9EDF355D-07F7-4315-B00E-B181C674D763@gsoft.com.au> <80113.1360496675@critter.freebsd.dk> <5117A0CD.6060904@beastielabs.net> <80625.1360508147@critter.freebsd.dk> Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 10:36:47 -0800 X-Google-Sender-Auth: LwzoV1rM0CoScNmwMsTrCEjDoqk Message-ID: Subject: Re: Time to kill fdc ? From: Adrian Chadd To: "C. P. Ghost" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp , current@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:36:50 -0000 ... I notice how people haven't quoted how much RAM they have, since that may influence whether or not things get bounced, double bounced or such. Adrian On 11 February 2013 03:28, C. P. Ghost wrote: > On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 3:55 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp 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/ > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"