From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 24 16:55:06 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC7B316A4CE for ; Wed, 24 Dec 2003 16:55:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.mho.com (smtp.mho.net [64.58.4.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9BEA643D2D for ; Wed, 24 Dec 2003 16:55:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scottl@freebsd.org) Received: (qmail 6468 invoked by uid 1002); 25 Dec 2003 00:55:05 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO freebsd.org) (64.58.1.252) by smtp.mho.net with SMTP; 25 Dec 2003 00:55:05 -0000 Message-ID: <3FEA3510.10305@freebsd.org> Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 17:53:36 -0700 From: Scott Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031103 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: supraexpress@globaleyes.net References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Plans for 5.3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 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: Thu, 25 Dec 2003 00:55:06 -0000 supraexpress@globaleyes.net wrote: >>This mostly sums up what remains on the 5-STABLE roadmap. If there are >>any new items that I've forgotten, please let me know. A detailed 5.3 >>TODO list will be published on the website once 5.2 is out the door. I >>welcome open discussion on all of this. > > > Please add/fix floppy disk (fdc0) support so I can "share" files between > multiple systems on the same physical box (where the filesystems are/may be > incompatible), create BIOS update diskettes for each/any system directly, and > "share" files between multiple machines where the floppy is the Least (Most?) > Common Denominator and network connectivity is not available. Thank you. There have been reports of floppy problems, but there is never enough information given to effectively track it down. One thing to try might be to disable ACPI on your system and see if your floppy starts working again. Scott