Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 09:04:27 +0800 From: "Rino Mardo" <rmardo@yahoo.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: error reading fsbn 0 Message-ID: <009801c12aa6$b2f62ca0$f6a145ca@rino> References: <000801c1296f$5abc8ee0$a9a145ca@rino>
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> alright this one i can't seem to isolate. i spent the whole day trying to > find out where this is coming from but whenever i (or disklabel) does a > mount of the floppy drive (/dev/afd0) i get: > > amnesiac# mount -t msdos /dev/afd0 /mnt > afd0: reading primary partition table: error reading fsbn 0 > > i tested my fd in dos and linux and has no problems reading or writing to > the same diskette or any diskette that i used. i reinstalled FreeBSD, > checked whatever docs i could find, reformat diskettes either using msdos or > ufs and i still get the same error message. > > btw, i'm using FreeBSD 4.2-R installed from a CD burned last April 15. in > the same system i have win98 and linux which doesn't complain about anything > regarding the fd. > > anyone has seen this problem and found the source of it? > > hah i found out the problem. actually nothing with the floppy drive it's coming from my internal zip drive (the afd0 is confusing with fd0 at first). now the question is why on earth would FreeBSD keep reading/looking for media in my zip drive when it's a mountable media? i even tried putting an entry in /etc/fstab for "/dev/afd0" thinking it would help but it's still as noisy. what could be missing? should i upgrade to stable? Rino _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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