Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 -------- In message <5117A0CD.6060904_at_beastielabs.net>, Hans Ottevanger writes: >On 02/10/13 12:46, Daniel O'Connor wrote: >But I just did an experiment on an old Pentium 4 system here, using the >fdc driver and 8.3-STABLE as of early December (r243900). I read several >diskettes using "dd /dev/fd0 /dev/null" and everything went flawlessly. Could you try: dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/dev/null bs=1048576 That consistently exploded 7.x and 8.x here yesterday... (I used recoverdisk, but that's not material) >Could it be that the drive that Poul-Henning is using is worn out a bit? No, that's not it. It's (amongst other things) ISA-DMA being børken (try something different that /dev null btw :-) and bounce buffers for same panicking the system. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk_at_FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.Received on Sun Feb 10 2013 - 13:55:50 UTC
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