Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2013 22:12:44 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Time to kill fdc ? Message-ID: <9EDF355D-07F7-4315-B00E-B181C674D763@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <79955.1360494404@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <79955.1360494404@critter.freebsd.dk>
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On 10/02/2013, at 21:36, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> wrote: > I tried to read a floppy disk yesterday. > > When was the last time anybody tried that with a FreeBSD release ? > > Based on my brief experiments yesterday, 6.X is the last release > where accessing floppy disks carry less than a 10% risk of a panic. > > Unless somebody fixes the fdc driver to work in -current, I intend > to dust of my axe and cut it from the tree later this spring. I've used it in 7.x to read install.cfg for a semi automated install process. I didn't see any panics, but then again install.cfg is a pretty small file. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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