From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 13 20:47:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from watson.ficsgrp.com (watson.ficsgrp.com [194.74.111.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 422FE37B6E2 for ; Mon, 13 Mar 2000 20:47:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from harry.woodward-clarke@s1.com) Received: from mail.au.ficsgrp.com ([194.74.111.35]) by watson.ficsgrp.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id AAA198C for ; Tue, 14 Mar 2000 05:47:48 +0100 Received: from S1.com ([172.16.48.219]) by mail.au.ficsgrp.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id 671; Tue, 14 Mar 2000 15:50:55 +1100 Message-ID: <38CDC482.4C9657B@S1.com> Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 04:48:02 +0000 From: Harry Woodward-Clarke X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.36 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Uriel Ash Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /kernel error when trying to mount my floppy drive References: <38CDC0E0.80035F22@earthlink.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi again Uriel > On advice from a freebsd subscriber, I tried > mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt and the error has now changed to > > /kernel: fd0c: hard error reading fsbn 0 ( ST0 40 (abnrml) ST 11 ST2 0 cyl 0 hd 0 sec 1. > At a rough guess, I'd say the diskette is 'stuffed'. This is a technical term that translates to 'throw it away and get a new one' ;') hth, Haxxa To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message