From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Nov 20 16:34: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from freeway.dcfinc.com (cx74889-a.phnx3.az.home.com [24.1.193.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83C3914E5A for ; Sat, 20 Nov 1999 16:34:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chad@freeway.dcfinc.com) Received: (from chad@localhost) by freeway.dcfinc.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA23624 for stable@FreeBSD.org; Sat, 20 Nov 1999 17:34:00 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from chad) From: "Chad R. Larson" Message-Id: <199911210034.RAA23624@freeway.dcfinc.com> Subject: Toshiba laptop lawsuit To: stable@FreeBSD.org Date: Sat, 20 Nov 1999 17:34:00 -0700 (MST) Reply-To: chad@DCFinc.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I was recently notified that I was a member of a class-action lawsuit against Toshiba on behalf of all laptop owners. It seems there is a microcode bug in the floppy disk controller chip that could (in theory) cause data loss or corruption when used with a multitasking operating system. > http://www.csd.toshiba.com/tais/csd/support/fdc/index.html The settlement offered includes a patch to be used with your operating system. FreeBSD 3.x was on the list of systems for which there were patches available, although the Toshiba web site only offered Win9x and NT 4.0 as choices. Does anyone on this list have more information? Is the fault on the laptop real? Who developed the FreeBSD patch, and what does it do? Is it open source? -crl -- Chad R. Larson (CRL15) 602-953-1392 Brother, can you paradigm? chad@dcfinc.com chad@larsons.org larson1@home.net DCF, Inc. - 14623 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254-2207 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message