Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 10:58:31 +0200 From: Eivind Evensen <eivinde@terraplane.org> To: Thomas Laus <lausts@acm.org> Cc: "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Floppy disks don't work with FreeBSD 9.0 Message-ID: <20120327085831.GA75987@klump.hjerdalen.lokalnett> In-Reply-To: <4F64608B.27301.3724F1@lausts.acm.org> References: <4F64608B.27301.3724F1@lausts.acm.org>
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On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 09:59:39AM -0400, Thomas Laus wrote: > 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. For what it's worth, I had problems writing images back to a floppy disk at around 8.0 prerelease. Dd wrote the image ok, but when closing the device, the machine panicked. Problem is gone on 8.2 and 8.3 (prerelease), and I haven't tried 9 yet. -- Eivind
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