Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 08:10:34 -0500 From: Peter Elsner <peter@servplex.com> To: Erick Smith <desertfox@cableaz.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Floppy drive confusion Message-ID: <5.2.0.9.2.20030814080934.011b87e0@mail.servplex.com> In-Reply-To: <200308132037.05924.desertfox@cableaz.com>
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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: <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? > >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 <peter@servplex.com> 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
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