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> OK, my fist trime trying to mount a floppy under FreebSD (4.8) isn't going
so
> well.
>
> I've looked over the net and I think I have a problem.
>
> I tried the command:
>
> mount_msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt
>
> and variants with the slices added.  In all cases tried so far I get the
> error:
>
> mount_msdos: /dev/fd0: Device not configured
>
> Here's where I think the problem lies:  (from my dmesg.boot)
>
> fdc0: <NEC 72065B or clone> at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0
> fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold
>
> The significant thing here is, there's no fd0 device after the controller
is
> detected.  I assume this must be why I can't mount my floppy.  Any idea
how I
> can get fd0 to show up?

Do you have a 'device fd0' line in your kernel config, like this?

device          fdc0    at isa? port IO_FD1 irq 6 drq 2
device          fd0     at fdc0 drive 0

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Matt Emmerton