Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 21:27:09 +0700 From: Eugene Grosbein <egrosbein@rdtc.ru> To: lausts@acm.org Cc: "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Floppy disks don't work with FreeBSD 9.0 Message-ID: <4F649F3D.7050408@rdtc.ru> In-Reply-To: <4F64608B.27301.3724F1@lausts.acm.org> References: <4F64608B.27301.3724F1@lausts.acm.org>
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17.03.2012 20:59, Thomas Laus пишет: > List: > > I keep archival floppy disk copies of EPROM images on CDROM and occasionally > need to DD them back to a floppy disk for my programmer to load. I recently > upgraded two of my shop computers from FreeBSD 7 Stable to FreeBSD 9 Stable > with clean installs. I tried the 'fdformat' command prior to 'dd' of the > image file yesterday. All of my floppy disks showed errors on all tracks. I > used a ^C to abort the command and the PC dropped core. I used the same > disks on my laptop with OpenBSD 5 and everything worked as expected. I was > able to format and diskdupe the image to them. I looked over the Release > Notes for FreeBSD 9 and there wasn't any mention of eliminating floppy disk > support on either FreeBSD 8 or 9. This happened on two different PC's, both > running FreeBSD 9. The hardware isn't suspect because these same two PC's > were able to format and dupe images when running FreeBSD 7. You need to supply more details. dmesg lines concerning fdc at least. Eugene Grosbein
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