Floppy disks don't work with FreeBSD 9.0

[Thomas Laus]

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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 to 'dd' of the 
image file yesterday.  All of my floppy disks showed errors on all tracks.  I 
used a ^C to abort the command and the PC dropped core.  I used the same 
disks on my laptop with OpenBSD 5 and everything worked as expected.  I was 
able to format and diskdupe the image to them.  I looked over the Release 
Notes for FreeBSD 9 and there wasn't any mention of eliminating floppy disk 
support on either FreeBSD 8 or 9.  This happened on two different PC's, both 
running FreeBSD 9.  The hardware isn't suspect because these same two PC's 
were able to format and dupe images when running FreeBSD 7.

Tom

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