From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Sep 8 21:52:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from posgate.acis.com.au (posgate.acis.com.au [203.14.230.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1BD837B405 for ; Sat, 8 Sep 2001 21:52:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bullseye.apana.org.au (dialup-8.aaa.net.au [203.14.230.73]) by posgate.acis.com.au (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f894q8r18369; Sun, 9 Sep 2001 14:52:12 +1000 Received: from bullseye.apana.org.au (central-f.apana.org.au [203.9.107.235]) by bullseye.apana.org.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA07336; Sun, 9 Sep 2001 11:32:44 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au) Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2001 11:21:18 +1000 (EST) From: Andrew MacIntyre To: Julio Merino Cc: Subject: Re: Reading 720kb floppies In-Reply-To: <20010908193852.A5190@juli.local> Message-ID: X-X-Sender: andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [posted & mailed] On Sat, 8 Sep 2001, Julio Merino wrote: > I'm getting errors when trying to read 720kb floppies under FreeBSD. > This hapens either with mtools or with mount_msdos (all 720kb floppies > fail). > > Is this a kernel issue? How can I access them? There are different devices for the different densitities - man fdc(4). For mtools, you should look at its config file, and see whether it contains a couple of commented out entries for the appropriate formats. -- Andrew I MacIntyre "These thoughts are mine alone..." E-mail: andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au | Snail: PO Box 370 andymac@pcug.org.au | Belconnen ACT 2616 Web: http://www.andymac.org/ | Australia To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message