Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2013 15:13:40 +0100 From: Eivind Evensen <eivinde@terraplane.org> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Time to kill fdc ? Message-ID: <20130210141340.GA96183@klump.hjerdalen.lokalnett> In-Reply-To: <79955.1360494404@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <79955.1360494404@critter.freebsd.dk>
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On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 11:06:44AM +0000, Poul-Henning Kamp 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. I'm using DD disks about every other day and HD disks about once a week. Apart from lots of seeking (for which I don't understand the reason) when closing the device in DD mode, I don't have any problems with it. This is on 8.3-PRERELEASE. I really hope the driver will stay.
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