From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 14 06:10:19 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81A5A37B401 for ; Thu, 14 Aug 2003 06:10:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from spxgate.servplex.com (ip66-105-58-82.z58-105-66.customer.algx.net [66.105.58.82]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 823B643F75 for ; Thu, 14 Aug 2003 06:10:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@servplex.com) Received: from peter.servplex.com ([192.168.0.96]) by spxgate.servplex.com (8.12.8/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h7EDK24C085092; Thu, 14 Aug 2003 08:20:02 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from peter@servplex.com) Message-Id: <5.2.0.9.2.20030814080934.011b87e0@mail.servplex.com> X-Sender: peter@mail.servplex.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.2.0.9 Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 08:10:34 -0500 To: Erick Smith From: Peter Elsner In-Reply-To: <200308132037.05924.desertfox@cableaz.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Floppy drive confusion X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 13:10:19 -0000 Is there a formatted floppy in the drive? At 08:37 PM 8/13/2003 -0700, you wrote: >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: 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? > >Thanks, > >Erick Smith > >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Peter Elsner Vice President Of Customer Service (And System Administrator) 1835 S. Carrier Parkway Grand Prairie, Texas 75051 (972) 263-2080 - Voice (972) 263-2082 - Fax (972) 489-4838 - Cell Phone