Time to kill fdc ?

Andriy Gapon avg at FreeBSD.org
Sun Feb 10 16:39:05 UTC 2013


on 10/02/2013 13:06 Poul-Henning Kamp said the following:
> 
> 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.

Is this an overreaction or just a wrong kind of reaction? :-)

-- 
Andriy Gapon


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