On Thursday, February 14, 2013 9:45:22 pm Adrian Chadd wrote:
> On 14 February 2013 13:35, John Baldwin wrote:
>
> > ISA bounces anything above 16GB. They are bouncing. I know it works for
> > some
> > people as I fixed a bug in the ISA bounce buffer code somewhat recentish:
>
> You mean 16MB
On 14 February 2013 13:35, John Baldwin wrote:
> ISA bounces anything above 16GB. They are bouncing. I know it works for some
> people as I fixed a bug in the ISA bounce buffer code somewhat recentish:
You mean 16MB, right?
There's a secondary bounce buffer thing needed for 32 bit PCI devices
On Monday, February 11, 2013 1:36:47 pm Adrian Chadd wrote:
> ... I notice how people haven't quoted how much RAM they have, since
> that may influence whether or not things get bounced, double bounced
> or such.
ISA bounces anything above 16GB. They are bouncing. I know it works for some
peopl
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 7:36 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> ... I notice how people haven't quoted how much RAM they have, since
> that may influence whether or not things get bounced, double bounced
> or such.
4 GB RAM installed here:
real memory = 4294967296 (4096 MB)
avail memory = 3832922112 (36
... I notice how people haven't quoted how much RAM they have, since
that may influence whether or not things get bounced, double bounced
or such.
Adrian
On 11 February 2013 03:28, C. P. Ghost wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 3:55 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp
> wrote:
>>>But I just did an experime
> When was the last time anybody tried that with a FreeBSD release ?
Routinely :) Often archiving piles of floppies as images too.
Imagine the legacy gaming crowd does this as well to use, while preventing loss.
Also, fdformat(1), fdcontrol(8), fdread(1), and fdwrite(1) are important
complimentary
On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 3:55 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>>But I just did an experiment on an old Pentium 4 system here, using the
>>fdc driver and 8.3-STABLE as of early December (r243900). I read several
>>diskettes using "dd /dev/fd0 /dev/null" and everything went flawlessly.
>
> Could you try
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In message <51180545.8030...@hesiod.org>, Jeff Anton writes:
>Please keep fdc.
If it works for everybody else, no worries, I wont touch it.
I'm just surprised my experience is so different from everybody else...
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Please keep fdc. I have many machines which still have working drives
and only last month I used one to make a bootable to update a machines
boot prom. I've even got 5 1/2" disk which still work. (Original MSDOS
5.0 and Windows 3.1 disks...)
atlas.hesiod.org:root[1]: dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/dev/
On 02/10/13 15:55, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
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> In message <5117a0cd.6060...@beastielabs.net>, Hans Ottevanger writes:
>> On 02/10/13 12:46, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
>
>> But I just did an experiment on an old Pentium 4 system here, using the
>
>> Poul-Henning Kamp 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 some
On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 3:53 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
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> In message
>
> , "C. P. Ghost" writes:
>>On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 2:28 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp
>>wrote:
>
>>I was thinking of physical fdc(4). Is there a published interface
>>to
On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 7:03 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>>> Could you try:
>>>
>>> dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/dev/null bs=1048576
>>>
>>> That consistently exploded 7.x and 8.x here yesterday...
>>
>>FWIW,
>>
>>NO problem here, with:
>>
>>7.4-STABLE 244498 i386 PII
>>8.3-STABLE 243778 i386 P4
>>10.
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In message <5117daa6.4000...@orange.fr>, Claude Buisson writes:
>> Could you try:
>>
>> dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/dev/null bs=1048576
>>
>> That consistently exploded 7.x and 8.x here yesterday...
>
>FWIW,
>
>NO problem here, with:
>
>7.4-STABLE
On 02/10/2013 15:55, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
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In message<5117a0cd.6060...@beastielabs.net>, Hans Ottevanger writes:
On 02/10/13 12:46, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
But I just did an experiment on an old Pentium 4 system here, using the
fdc drive
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%
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In message <20130210141340.GA96183@klump.hjerdalen.lokalnett>, Eivind Evensen w
rites:
>Apart from lots of seeking (for which I don't understand the reason) when
>closing the device in DD mode, I don't have any problems with it.
That's the ge
On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 11:06:44AM +, Poul-Henning Kamp 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 th
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In message <5117a0cd.6060...@beastielabs.net>, Hans Ottevanger writes:
>On 02/10/13 12:46, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
>But I just did an experiment on an old Pentium 4 system here, using the
>fdc driver and 8.3-STABLE as of early December (r243900)
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In message
, "C. P. Ghost" writes:
>On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 2:28 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>I was thinking of physical fdc(4). Is there a published interface
>to access the hardware, i.e. to tunnel the commands and return
>values to and fr
On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 1:28 PM, Fbsd8 wrote:
> Floppy drive support was removed from Freebsd around release 7.0 I think.
> Read the release-notes for 6.0, 7.0 and 8.0 to determine when it happened.
Nope, floppy support is still there, and AFAICS it is working just fine:
Script started on Sun Fe
Claude Buisson wrote:
On 02/10/2013 13:28, Fbsd8 wrote:
Poul-Henning Kamp 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
On 02/10/2013 13:28, Fbsd8 wrote:
Poul-Henning Kamp 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 p
On 02/10/13 12:46, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
>
> On 10/02/2013, at 22:14, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>> On 7.x I got consistent
On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 2:28 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>>Any chance to get a user-mode fdc(4) replacement then? Maybe
>>in ports?
>
> Uhm, just how would t
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In message
, "C. P. Ghost" writes:
>> 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.
>
>Any chance to get a user-mode fdc(4) replacement then? Maybe
>in ports
On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 12:06 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp 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% r
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In message <5117927c.8090...@a1poweruser.com>, Fbsd8 writes:
>Floppy drive support was removed from Freebsd around release 7.0 I
>think. Read the release-notes for 6.0, 7.0 and 8.0 to determine when it
>happened.
I think you are confusing "i
On Sun, 10 Feb 2013, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> I tried to read a floppy disk yesterday.
>
> When was the last time anybody tried that with a FreeBSD release ?
>
I did it last week on 9.0-R. Worked great.
(I have more than plans to continue supporting floppies -- I've actually
written code in
On Sunday 10 February 2013 12:12:52 Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
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> In message <201302101211.15818.hsela...@c2i.net>, Hans Petter Selasky
writes:
> >As long as you leave room for USB floppy disks working.
>
> As far as I know, they are just
Poul-Henning Kamp 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 fd
On 10/02/2013, at 22:14, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> 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.
>
> On 7.x I got consistent panics about bounce-buffers.
Hmm strange, I am not s
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In message <9edf355d-07f7-4315-b00e-b181c674d...@gsoft.com.au>, "Daniel O'Conno
r" writes:
>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 f
On 10/02/2013, at 21:36, Poul-Henning Kamp 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
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In message <201302101211.15818.hsela...@c2i.net>, Hans Petter Selasky writes:
>As long as you leave room for USB floppy disks working.
As far as I know, they are just umass devices, right ? They share
no actual code with fdc.c ?
--
Poul-He
On Sunday 10 February 2013 12:06:44 Poul-Henning Kamp 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%
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 -curre
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