Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2003 12:30:32 +0000 From: Josh Paetzel <friar_josh@tcbug.org> To: nil ban <trumvect@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I can't mount dos formatted 1.44mb floppy in FreeBSD 5.0 Message-ID: <20031214123031.GB10397@ns1.tcbug.org> In-Reply-To: <20031214181448.86968.qmail@web20110.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20031214120619.18CDF16A4DB@hub.freebsd.org> <20031214181448.86968.qmail@web20110.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 10:14:48AM -0800, nil ban wrote: > > Hello, > > Plz tell me how I'll be able to mount 1.44mb dos > formatted(fat filesystem) floppy. Whenever I give the > command #mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy, > I get the following promt; > msdosfs: /dev/fd0: Input/output error. > I also wrote msdosfs instead of msdos and try other > floppies but the result is same. I can read and write > in those floppies in windows so I think the floppies > are not defective. > > And plz tell me how to format floppy with > FAT and UFS. > > Thanks & Regards > For starters, I would install the /usr/ports/emulators/mtools port. This allows you to format, read, and write to floppies like you would from DOS. For using floppies under FreeBSD you may want to take a look at the following handbook page: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/floppies.html Thanks, Josh Paetzel
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