Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 10:36:47 -0800 From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> To: "C. P. Ghost" <cpghost@cordula.ws> Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Time to kill fdc ? Message-ID: <CAJ-Vmon=mafXFk6B8V8Oimf871iAYW=GPfRU2jGujQ3i_jm_bQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CADGWnjVmDM0GqpHygFo4AzOYwcrRa1%2BwBFvwt34-0hbY2hCFzw@mail.gmail.com> 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> <CADGWnjVmDM0GqpHygFo4AzOYwcrRa1%2BwBFvwt34-0hbY2hCFzw@mail.gmail.com>
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... 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 <cpghost@cordula.ws> wrote: > 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/ > _______________________________________________ > 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"
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