From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 17 13:59:40 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A1D3106564A for ; Sat, 17 Mar 2012 13:59:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lausts@acm.org) Received: from hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com (hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com [71.74.56.122]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 486E08FC15 for ; Sat, 17 Mar 2012 13:59:39 +0000 (UTC) X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.0 cv=Wf+OmjdX c=1 sm=0 a=de+ksHeJaPmK8cA12er7Ag==:17 a=VyBCHhcZmHwA:10 a=XvPvJaL1y90A:10 a=kWQ6D_09QQAA:10 a=kHc8Q_KJ-KsA:10 a=eFV7t2rJrlGybvsV9tEA:9 a=uzRwiAlns_5Vdnck47EA:7 a=de+ksHeJaPmK8cA12er7Ag==:117 X-Cloudmark-Score: 0 X-Originating-IP: 98.31.23.46 Received: from [98.31.23.46] ([98.31.23.46:20383] helo=mail.laus.org) by hrndva-oedge02.mail.rr.com (envelope-from ) (ecelerity 2.2.3.46 r()) with ESMTP id F4/B1-00803-BC8946F4; Sat, 17 Mar 2012 13:59:39 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.100] (laust2 [192.168.1.100]) by mail.laus.org (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q2HDxdhJ022989 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO) for ; Sat, 17 Mar 2012 09:59:39 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from lausts@acm.org) From: "Thomas Laus" Organization: ABB To: "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 09:59:39 -0400 Message-ID: <4F64608B.27301.3724F1@lausts.acm.org> Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (4.41) Subject: Floppy disks don't work with FreeBSD 9.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: lausts@acm.org List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 13:59:40 -0000 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. Tom -- Public Keys: PGP KeyID = 0x5F22FDC1 GnuPG KeyID = 0x620836CF