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From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.2.5  Q&A floppies
In-Reply-To: <19980927.7062500@tsoft.com> from "cgrimes@tsoft.com" at "Sep 27, 98 07:06:25 am"
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Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1998 19:23:06 -0700 (PDT)
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According to cgrimes@tsoft.com:
> 
> Hey Kline@Tao,
> 
> This may sound extremely stupid, but I can not get my floppy drive 
> recognized, read, accessed, or mounted in 2.2.5. It doesn't show up on 
> the boot device list (fd0 ?). When I try to manually mount it by 
> typing "mount /dev/fd0 /A <or> /mnt" I get the message, "fd0 device 
> not configured" I tried MAKEDEV fd0, fd0a, fd1.1440, and so forth, and 
> get other error messages. 
> 
> What I want to do is have a working 3.5" drive so I can pull in old 
> DOS, Win95 text files.  
> 
> So, what's up? Does this mean I have to add fd0 to the kernel and 
> re-compile the kernel? If this is the case, then guys, I gotta say, I 
> hope you put a fd0 (3.5" 1440) into the default kernel in whatever is 
> the current version of FreeBSD. BTW, I've been over the 2.2.5 manual 
> many times on this issue and still don't understand what's wrong. 
> 
> Any help would be appreciated--like a check list to figure out where 
> the problem is.
> 

	I'm cc'ing the -questions list, where this kind of query 
	properly belongs.  The people on -questions have prob'ly 
	seen this one myriad times before.  Also where you are 
	likely to get help much more quickly than through me.

	There is no such thing as a stupid question, as far as I'm
	concerned; the stupid thing is not to ask help if  you are 
	stumped.

	That said, the following questions come to mind:  
	  
	  Have you checked the device directory to see if fd0...
	  exist?   Type:

	    % cd /dev
	    % ls -l fd0*

	  to see.  The floppy devices should be there; and yes, of
	  course they are in the kernel.   Type

	    % dmesg | more

	  to check your system configuration.

	  Assuming the /dev/fd0 and others are missing, you can
	  make the with the MAKEDEV script.  You've got to be root
	  and specify MAKEDEV specifically since /dev isn't in 
	  root's exec $path.

	  So try :

	    # cd /dev 
	    # ./MAKEDEV fd0



	And let us know what happens...  

	enjoy!

	gary



> 


-- 
   Gary D. Kline         kline@tao.thought.org          Public service uNix


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