floppy disk controller broken

Michel Talon
2008-09-17T15:04:45Z

Hello,

when testing FreeBSD-7.1-BETA i discovered that the floppy disk
controller doesn't work correctly. Trying to format a floppy (perhaps
with bad blocks) i get:
Processing fdformat: ioctl(FD_FORM): Device not configured
instead of the normal E letter. I then checked the same problem is
present on FreeBSD-6.3 and it has been reported by Beech Rintoul (*) in
2006! Of course the floppy disk driver is particularly messy, but
this is not pretty.

(*) i386/103862: Error with fdformat

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Michel TALON