[j@uriah.heep.sax.de: Re: fdformat(8) doesn't work]

[Joerg Wunsch]

[Repost since the sender address in the original mail didn't match my
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Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2004 10:25:06 +0200
From: Joerg Wunsch <j at uriah.heep.sax.de>
To: Bruce Evans <bde at zeta.org.au>
Cc: Ruslan Ermilov <ru at FreeBSD.org>, current at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: fdformat(8) doesn't work
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As Bruce Evans wrote:

> It was broken in rev.1.266 by removing the wrong half of an if-else
> clause.  I sent a patch to the maintainer a couple of weeks ago but
> have received no reply.  Meanwhile, fdc itself was broken by pci BAR
> changes.

Sorry for the non-reply.  I have only been able to setup a -current
box by last week (and this one doesn't even want to recognize the
floppy controller when ACPI is used, but at least the non-ACPI part
seems to work), but I have yet to follow all of your discussion and
patches...

I've noticed more (longer-standing) brokeness in the floppy driver
as well: the automatic creation of cloned devices stopped working
some time before FreeBSD 5.2.  I also intend to fix that.
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