Re: Time to kill fdc ?

Claude Buisson wrote:
> On 02/10/2013 13:28, Fbsd8 wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Is this a joke ??
> 
> Script started on Sun Feb 10 14:47:20 2013
> root_at_fidel:~ # uname -a
> FreeBSD fidel 10.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT #0: Fri Jan 18 17:45:10 
> CET 2013
>     toor_at_fidel:/usr/obj/home/src/sys/ADELE10X  i386
> root_at_fidel:~ # mount_msdosfs /dev/fd0 /floppy
> root_at_fidel:~ # ll /floppy
> total 341
> -rw-rw-r--  1 root  operator   1851 Aug 15  2011 licence.txt
> -rw-rw-r--  1 root  operator  79175 Aug 15  2011 liesmich.html
> -rw-rw-r--  1 root  operator  70564 Aug 15  2011 liesmich.txt
> -rw-rw-r--  1 root  operator  43319 Sep 15  2011 plpbt.bin
> -rw-rw-r--  1 root  operator  81846 Aug 15  2011 readme.html
> -rw-rw-r--  1 root  operator  71509 Aug 15  2011 readme.txt
> root_at_fidel:~ # umount /floppy
> root_at_fidel:~ # dd if=/dev/fd0 of=floppy.img
> 2880+0 records in
> 2880+0 records out
> 1474560 bytes transferred in 48.027444 secs (30702 bytes/sec)
> root_at_fidel:~ # mount_msdosdfs /dev/fd0 /floppy
> root_at_fidel:~ # ll /floppy
> total 0
> root_at_fidel:~ # umount /floppy
> root_at_fidel:~ # dd if=floppy.img of=/dev/fd0
> 2880+0 records in
> 2880+0 records out
> 1474560 bytes transferred in 47.829774 secs (30829 bytes/sec)
> root_at_fidel:~ # mount_msdosfs /dev/fd0 /floppy
> root_at_fidel:~ # ll /floppy
> total 341
> -rw-rw-r--  1 root  operator   1851 Aug 15  2011 licence.txt
> -rw-rw-r--  1 root  operator  79175 Aug 15  2011 liesmich.html
> -rw-rw-r--  1 root  operator  70564 Aug 15  2011 liesmich.txt
> -rw-rw-r--  1 root  operator  43319 Sep 15  2011 plpbt.bin
> -rw-rw-r--  1 root  operator  81846 Aug 15  2011 readme.html
> -rw-rw-r--  1 root  operator  71509 Aug 15  2011 readme.txt
> root_at_fidel:~ # rm /floppy/*
> root_at_fidel:~ # umount /floppy
> 
> with a 10 years old drive, and >10 years old floppies..
> 
> yes, there can be i/o errors with such media
> 
> CBu
> 
> 
My bad it was floppy install media that was dropped.