Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 09:22:03 +0100 (BST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Florin=20Betivoiu?= <flow_of_rhin@yahoo.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: floppy Message-ID: <20031016082203.7120.qmail@web60102.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20031009095318.T7272-100000@floyd.gnulife.org>
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Jamie <jamie@gnulife.org> wrote: On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, [iso-8859-1] Florin Betivoiu wrote: > > Hello. > I am trying to mount a floppy. Don't know what is it that I do wrong, > cause it doens't work... I have asked for help before, even here, but the > problem still is not solved :( . > > I am using FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE. The same happend with 5.0-RELEASE, but with FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE, floppy worked ok. > > This is my uname: > FreeBSD pony 5.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE #0: Wed Sep 24 21:40:11 EEST 2003 root@pony:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/PONY i386 > > This is what I can see in dmesg: > fdc0: port 0x3f7,0x3f0-0x3f5 irq 6 drq 2 on acpi0 > fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold > fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0 > > This is what mount says: > root@pony# mount -t msdosfs /dev/fd0 /mnt/ > msdosfs: /dev/fd0: Input/output error > > The first time I asked for help, someone suggested I should do this with > dd. I must say that if I reboot to Linux, floppy works ok: > root@pony# dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/dev/null > > And this is what hapend: > dd: /dev/fd0: Input/output error Sorry Florin, I think I made a mistake in my original reply. You might want to try this instead: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/fd0 bs=1024 Then you need to create a filesystem on the disk: mkfs -t ext2 /dev/fd0 Then you can try mounting it: mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy - Jamie > > Thanks in advance for any suggestions. > > > > --------------------------------- > Want to chat instantly with your online friends? Get the FREE Yahoo!Messenger > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > "A friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself." Well... I don't want to write a floppy, just trying to read one. The situation is I created this floppy on a windows computer and I am trying to read it on my home computer which has "just" FreeBSD and Linux. I did what you suggested: # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/fd0 bs=1024 dd: /dev/fd0: Input/output error :(( Someone else suggested I should try to mount /dev/fd0a, but I noticed in FreeBSD 5.0 and above /dev/fd0a is a symbolic link to /dev/fd0. And someone else suggested the mtools. Those didn't work either. Trying to "mdir a:" resulted in Can't open /dev/fd0: Input/output error Cannot initialize 'A:' error messages. Finally, trying to "fdformat -f 1440 /dev/fd0" another good floppy, resulted in the same I/O error message: # fdformat -f 1440 /dev/fd0 Format 1440K floppy `/dev/fd0'? (y/n): y Processing fdformat: ioctl(FD_FORM): Input/output error When I tryied those things I noticed the floppy doesn't even spins, just the led lights up for a while. Florin. --------------------------------- Want to chat instantly with your online friends? Get the FREE Yahoo!Messenger
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