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From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: dd from floppy causes vm fault in FreeBSD-1.0-GAMMA
Date: 17 Sep 1993 15:23:29 GMT
Organization: Montana Stateu University, Bozeman  MT
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Message-ID: <27ckph$nmd@pdq.coe.montana.edu>
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Keywords: panic trap vm_fault FreeBSD-1.0-GAMMA

In article <2C992C39.17182@news.service.uci.edu>,  <bob@beamlab> wrote:
>
>Hello all,
>
>Is there a problem with the floppy drivers
>in FreeBSD? Trying to copy a DOS diskette
>using:

The floppy disk code is going through some rather radical changes even
now.  Bruce Evans has been working on it lately, and J"oerg Wunsch has a
floppy formatter (yes, a formatter) just made available for beta test.

These things are being tested, and when everything is verified you will
see an announcement on their availability.


Nate
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