On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 1:28 PM, Fbsd8 <fbsd8_at_a1poweruser.com> wrote: > 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. Nope, floppy support is still there, and AFAICS it is working just fine: Script started on Sun Feb 10 15:21:07 2013 root_at_phenom:~ # uname -a FreeBSD phenom.cordula.ws 9.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 9.1-PRERELEASE #0 r244903: Mon Dec 31 15:14:32 CET 2012 root_at_phenom.cordula.ws:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 root_at_phenom:~ # fdformat /dev/fd0 Format 1440K floppy `/dev/fd0'? (y/n): y Processing VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV done. root_at_phenom:~ # newfs /dev/fd0 /dev/fd0: 1.4MB (2880 sectors) block size 32768, fragment size 4096 using 2 cylinder groups of 1.00MB, 32 blks, 128 inodes. super-block backups (for fsck_ffs -b #) at: 192, 2240 root_at_phenom:~ # mount /dev/fd0 /mnt root_at_phenom:~ # df -h /mnt Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/fd0 1.1M 8.0k 1.0M 1% /mnt root_at_phenom:~ # cp /usr/include/sys/_*.h /mnt root_at_phenom:~ # sync root_at_phenom:~ # df -h /mnt Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/fd0 1.1M 112k 948k 11% /mnt root_at_phenom:~ # ls /mnt .snap _null.h _sx.h _bus_dma.h _pthreadtypes.h _task.h _callout.h _rmlock.h _termios.h _cpuset.h _rwlock.h _timespec.h _iovec.h _semaphore.h _timeval.h _kstack_cache.h _sigset.h _types.h _lock.h _sockaddr_storage.h _umtx.h _lockmgr.h _stack.h _mutex.h _stdint.h root_at_phenom:~ # umount /mnt root_at_phenom:~ # exit exit Script done on Sun Feb 10 15:26:10 2013 This was with an 10+ years old 1.44MB floppy that I had lying around here, on FreeBSD/amd64 9.1 r244903. It would be a shame to axe that code. -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/Received on Sun Feb 10 2013 - 13:32:44 UTC
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