Time to kill fdc ?

[Daniel O'Connor]

On 10/02/2013, at 21:36, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk at phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:
> I tried to read a floppy disk yesterday.
> 
> When was the last time anybody tried that with a FreeBSD release ?
> 
> Based on my brief experiments yesterday, 6.X is the last release
> where accessing floppy disks carry less than a 10% risk of a panic.
> 
> Unless somebody fixes the fdc driver to work in -current, I intend
> to dust of my axe and cut it from the tree later this spring.


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.

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