On 02/10/13 12:46, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > On 10/02/2013, at 22:14, Poul-Henning Kamp <p...@phk.freebsd.dk> wrote: >>> I've used it in 7.x to read install.cfg for a semi automated install >>> process. >>> >>> I didn't see any panics, but then again install.cfg is a pretty small file. >> >> On 7.x I got consistent panics about bounce-buffers. > > > Hmm strange, I am not sure I have requisite hardware at work any more, all of > the suitable machines were shipped. > > In any case I am in no position to maintain FDC as I no longer user it as > part of my install process. > > --
I still use those old 1.4 Mbyte diskettes quite often (ancient archives of experimental data, exchanging data with retro-computers, etc.), but these days I mostly (but not always) use a USB diskette drive. 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. The only issue I have seen with fdc over the years/releases is that around 7.x old DD diskettes (maximum of 720 kbyte) stopped working. Attempting to write them failed with a lot of retries, but never resulted in a panic. Strange enough they do work with my USB drive ... Could it be that the drive that Poul-Henning is using is worn out a bit? Not that the system should be panicking in that case, but it could at least explain why we see different thing happening. Kind regards, Hans _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
