Plans for 5.3

Scott Long scottl at freebsd.org
Wed Dec 24 16:55:06 PST 2003


supraexpress at globaleyes.net wrote:
>>This mostly sums up what remains on the 5-STABLE roadmap.  If there are
>>any new items that I've forgotten, please let me know.  A detailed 5.3
>>TODO list will be published on the website once 5.2 is out the door.  I
>>welcome open discussion on all of this.
> 
> 
> Please add/fix floppy disk (fdc0) support so I can "share" files between
> multiple systems on the same physical box (where the filesystems are/may be
> incompatible), create BIOS update diskettes for each/any system directly, and
> "share" files between multiple machines where the floppy is the Least (Most?)
> Common Denominator and network connectivity is not available. Thank you.

There have been reports of floppy problems, but there is never enough
information given to effectively track it down.  One thing to try might
be to disable ACPI on your system and see if your floppy starts working
again.

Scott



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