Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 21:57:58 +0200 From: Eivind Evensen <eivinde@terraplane.org> To: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> Cc: "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, Thomas Laus <lausts@acm.org> Subject: Re: Floppy disks don't work with FreeBSD 9.0 Message-ID: <20120327195758.GA78507@klump.hjerdalen.lokalnett> In-Reply-To: <CAJ-VmokCfy5MsWfVx3PVSVst_L7i9Rkwz4Rp-svN%2BDrZfqnegA@mail.gmail.com> References: <4F64608B.27301.3724F1@lausts.acm.org> <20120327085831.GA75987@klump.hjerdalen.lokalnett> <CAJ-VmokCfy5MsWfVx3PVSVst_L7i9Rkwz4Rp-svN%2BDrZfqnegA@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi. On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 09:45:25AM -0700, Adrian Chadd wrote: > Hi, > > can you please try 8-stable and 9-stable, and if it's still failing, file a > PR? > > I don't know who looks after the floppy subsystem but it shouldn't > exactly be difficult to fix.. I'm a bit short on free machines, so the closest I can get right now is my everyday machine running from sources cvsupped from RELENG_8 3.rd of March: uname -a FreeBSD elg.hjerdalen.lokalnett 8.3-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 8.3-PRERELEASE #42: Sat Mar 3 20:05:21 CET 2012 rumrunner@elg.hjerdalen.lokalnett:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/RUM amd64 fdformat works fine here with: dmesg |grep fdc fdc0: <floppy drive controller (FDE)> port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on acpi0 fdc0: [FILTER] fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0 Using the disk normally also works. Additionally, I tried to mount a DD disk (previously formatted and with files on), which also worked without hassle. I remember back on 6.X or 7.X, I found no other way to make DD disks work after having read/written HD disks than using fdformat -f720 on a disk first. Then again, that was on different hardware, so it may have other reasons. I have an old machine I could install 9.0 on in order to test there, but I'd have to install that machine from floppy and I can't seem to find images for that any more. If it's of interest, I could probably find another machine to install on, then move the harddrive to the other machine, but I'd need to some for that. Regards -- Eivind
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