Re: Floppy disks don't work with FreeBSD 9.0

2012-03-30 Thread John Baldwin
On Wednesday, March 28, 2012 3:57:37 pm Thomas Laus wrote: > > Hi. > > > > I'm a bit short on free machines, so the closest I can get right now > > is my everyday machine running from sources cvsupped from > > RELENG_8 3.rd of March: > > > I 'csuped' to FreeBSD 9.0-STABLE today and still had the

Re: Floppy disks don't work with FreeBSD 9.0

2012-03-28 Thread Thomas Laus
> Hi. > > I'm a bit short on free machines, so the closest I can get right now > is my everyday machine running from sources cvsupped from > RELENG_8 3.rd of March: > I 'csuped' to FreeBSD 9.0-STABLE today and still had the same problem. This computer has normal floppy disk operation when using

Re: Floppy disks don't work with FreeBSD 9.0

2012-03-28 Thread Graham Menhennitt
On 28/03/2012 09:03, Mark Felder wrote: On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 16:48:26 -0500, Thomas Laus wrote: Could this be related to CAM system issues that shipped with FreeBSD 9.0 and were fixed in -STABLE? Like the CDROM issues? I'd probably test in -STABLE first. Unfortunately I don't have any floppy d

Re: Floppy disks don't work with FreeBSD 9.0

2012-03-27 Thread Dan Daley
Pretty sure I have a brand new, never used floppy drive laying around that I could send to you :) I don't think I have any discs though. On 03/27/2012 17:03, Mark Felder wrote: On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 16:48:26 -0500, Thomas Laus wrote: It looks like we both have confirmed that the floppy dis

Re: Floppy disks don't work with FreeBSD 9.0

2012-03-27 Thread Mark Felder
On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 16:48:26 -0500, Thomas Laus wrote: It looks like we both have confirmed that the floppy disk operation works up to FreeBSD 8.3 RC1. I will need to file a PR for FreeBSD 9.0 in the bug system. Thanks for the help. Could this be related to CAM system issues that shippe

Re: Floppy disks don't work with FreeBSD 9.0

2012-03-27 Thread Thomas Laus
> uname -a > FreeBSD elg.hjerdalen.lokalnett 8.3-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 8.3-PRERELEASE #42: Sat > Mar 3 20:05:21 CET 2012 > rumrunner@elg.hjerdalen.lokalnett:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/RUM amd64 > > fdformat works fine here with: > dmesg |grep fdc > fdc0: port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on > acpi0

Re: Floppy disks don't work with FreeBSD 9.0

2012-03-27 Thread Eivind Evensen
Hi. On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 09:45:25AM -0700, Adrian Chadd wrote: > Hi, > > can you please try 8-stable and 9-stable, and if it's still failing, file a > PR? > > I don't know who looks after the floppy subsystem but it shouldn't > exactly be difficult to fix.. I'm a bit short on free machines,

Re: Floppy disks don't work with FreeBSD 9.0

2012-03-27 Thread Adrian Chadd
Hi, can you please try 8-stable and 9-stable, and if it's still failing, file a PR? I don't know who looks after the floppy subsystem but it shouldn't exactly be difficult to fix.. Adrian ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd

Re: Floppy disks don't work with FreeBSD 9.0

2012-03-27 Thread Thomas Laus
> For what it's worth, I had problems writing images back to a > floppy disk at around 8.0 prerelease. Dd wrote the image ok, > but when closing the device, the machine panicked. Problem is > gone on 8.2 and 8.3 (prerelease), and I haven't tried 9 yet. > My two computers running FreeBSD 9 can't ev

Re: Floppy disks don't work with FreeBSD 9.0

2012-03-27 Thread Eivind Evensen
On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 09:59:39AM -0400, Thomas Laus wrote: > List: > > I keep archival floppy disk copies of EPROM images on CDROM and occasionally > need to DD them back to a floppy disk for my programmer to load. I recently > upgraded two of my shop computers from FreeBSD 7 Stable to FreeBS

Re: Floppy disks don't work with FreeBSD 9.0

2012-03-17 Thread Eugene Grosbein
17.03.2012 20:59, Thomas Laus пишет: > List: > > I keep archival floppy disk copies of EPROM images on CDROM and occasionally > need to DD them back to a floppy disk for my programmer to load. I recently > upgraded two of my shop computers from FreeBSD 7 Stable to FreeBSD 9 Stable > with clean

Floppy disks don't work with FreeBSD 9.0

2012-03-17 Thread Thomas Laus
List: I keep archival floppy disk copies of EPROM images on CDROM and occasionally need to DD them back to a floppy disk for my programmer to load. I recently upgraded two of my shop computers from FreeBSD 7 Stable to FreeBSD 9 Stable with clean installs. I tried the 'fdformat' command prior