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Date:      Fri, 14 Aug 2020 18:59:05 +0000 (UTC)
From:      Roderick <hruodr@gmail.com>
To:        Christoph Kukulies <kuku@kukulies.org>
Cc:        User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: 5.25" Floppy disk drive not recognized
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.23.453.2008141855270.891@fbsd.local>
In-Reply-To: <76A64DE1-B61B-405E-A623-C886819E1977@kukulies.org>
References:  <46FFA8F9-90AA-42DE-8E8B-CA4383CA7AC6@kukulies.org> <20200814101021.c71f6c23768a5bef685739fe@sohara.org> <20200814071030.3f319e5a@scorpio.seibercom.net> <76A64DE1-B61B-405E-A623-C886819E1977@kukulies.org>

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On Fri, 14 Aug 2020, Christoph Kukulies wrote:

> dd: /dev/fd0: Device not configured
> 0+0 records in
> 0+0 records out
> 0 bytes transferred in 0.000262 secs (0 bytes/sec)
>
>
> Also # cat /dev/fd0 >dump
> cat: /dev/fd0: Device not configured
>
> Why?

With low level formatting I mean the way the blocks are separated
and the bits are represented in the disc. With old floppies
it was not standard. The prblem may be hardware and software,
I do not know what FreeBSD does.

Rod.



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