Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 01:09:38 -0400 From: "Matthew Emmerton" <matt@compar.com> To: "Erick Smith" <desertfox@cableaz.com>, "FreeBSD Questions Mailing List" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Floppy drive confusion Message-ID: <001b01c36222$430cfa80$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> References: <200308132037.05924.desertfox@cableaz.com>
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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 -- Matt Emmerton
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