Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 14:22:55 +0930 From: Malcolm Kay <Malcolm.Kay@internode.on.net> To: Chris Pockele <chrisp@belgacom.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: floppy drive problem Message-ID: <200304231422.55230.Malcolm.Kay@internode.on.net> In-Reply-To: <20030422125218.GA544@freedaemon.home.lan> References: <20030421170801.GA23306@freedaemon.home.lan> <200304221410.29115.Malcolm.Kay@internode.on.net> <20030422125218.GA544@freedaemon.home.lan>
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On Tue, 22 Apr 2003 22:22, Chris Pockele wrote: > > > > nomad# dd if=3D/dev/fd0a /mnt > > > > dd: unknown operand /mnt > > > > > > Incorrect use of dd. > > Indeed, this was just a mistake that got copy-pasted along :). > > > Notice all Chris's commands address a ufs partition, and the errors c= ome > > from fd0c -- again a ufs concept. The disk is not set up with ufs but > > FAT12 so these do not exist. > > Using fd0a instead of fd0 works fine on another machine. > And doesn't fd0c mean "the whole disk" anyway? > I stand corrected, looking at output from: # ls -l /dev/fd0* I see that fd0 and fd0a to fd0h all have same major/minor device numbers. I still have some difficulty believing there is a hardware fault; but cou= ld accept the idea of some hardware peculiarity that FreeBSD does not allow for. To my mind the messages under linux seem to support the=20 possibility; but obviously I'm now well outside my region of competance. Malcolm
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