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Subject: RE: Unable to 'MOUNT' Floppy Drive
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 16:29:20 -0600
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yo can try:

mount -t msdos /dev/fd0a /mnt/floppy

create the floppy directory under the /mnt  point

check the mount and  unmount man pages!

Also check your devices!, check for fd?????,  under /dev it should be
something near

fd0a1440 or something like that.

good look!

Eric De La Cruz Lugo.
Merida, Yucatan, Mexico.


----- Original Message -----
From: Morrow Dana TSgt AMC CSS/NOSA <Dana.Morrow@scott.af.mil>
To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 4:17 PM
Subject: Unable to 'MOUNT' Floppy Drive


> Just loaded FreeBSD 3.4 from CD-ROM onto a Gateway Solo 2500 Laptop
> computer. I am unable to mount the floppy drive. I receive an
'input/output
> error' after entering the mount command. When I use the 'dmesg' command, I
> receive the following -
>
> /kernel: fd0: recal failed ST0 70<abnrml,seek_cmplt,equ_chck> cyl 0
> /kernel: fd0: hard error reading fsbn 0 (No status)
>
> I've tried using 'mount -t /dev/fd0 /floppy'
> 'mount_msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy'
> 'mount /dev/fd0 /floppy'
>
> I have created '/floppy' in the root directory.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> regards,
>
> Dana E Morrow
> Comm: 618-256-1114
>
>
>
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