Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2013 07:28:44 -0500 From: Fbsd8 <fbsd8@a1poweruser.com> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Time to kill fdc ? Message-ID: <5117927C.8090204@a1poweruser.com> In-Reply-To: <79955.1360494404@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <79955.1360494404@critter.freebsd.dk>
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Poul-Henning Kamp 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. > Floppy drive support was removed from Freebsd around release 7.0 I think. Read the release-notes for 6.0, 7.0 and 8.0 to determine when it happened.
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