The following reply was made to PR port-i386/27262; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Paul Shupak <paul@Plectere.com>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: paul@Plectere.com
Subject: Re: port-i386/27262 (i386 kernel w/ fdc conf'd in hangs if no fdc exists)
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 18:48:33 -0700 (PDT)

 >Synopsis: i386 kernel w/ fdc conf'd in hangs if no fdc exists
 >
 >Responsible-Changed-From-To: port-i386-maintainer->jmcneill
 >Responsible-Changed-By: jmcneill@netbsd.org
 >Responsible-Changed-When: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 00:40:01 +0000
 >Responsible-Changed-Why:
 >I'll handle this.
 >
 >
 >State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback
 >State-Changed-By: jmcneill@netbsd.org
 >State-Changed-When: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 00:40:01 +0000
 >State-Changed-Why:
 >I am unable to reproduce this on my floppy-less Sony Vaio laptop with 4.0 or 4.99.2. Can you retest?
 >
 
 	I'll try on a 4.99.2 system later this week;  For 3.99.x and values
 of x <= 10 it was completely reproducable, but I haven't seen it in about
 a year (just *always* put a floppy in *or* disable the controller in the
 BIOS are both usable workarounds).
 
 	Paul Shupak