Re: Time to kill fdc ?

From: Claude Buisson <clbuisson_at_orange.fr>
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2013 18:36:38 +0100
On 02/10/2013 15:55, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
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> 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...
>

FWIW,

NO problem here, with:

7.4-STABLE 244498 i386 PII
8.3-STABLE 243778 i386 P4
10.0-CURRENT 245422 i386 P4 (same system)

I do not have floppies on my 9.X / amd64 systems

CBu
Received on Sun Feb 10 2013 - 16:36:41 UTC

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