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Subject: Re: Floppy disks don't work with FreeBSD 9.0
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17.03.2012 20:59, Thomas Laus пишет:
> 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.

You need to supply more details. dmesg lines concerning fdc at least.

Eugene Grosbein