Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 09:35:28 -0500 (CDT) From: Jamie <jamie@gnulife.org> To: =?iso-8859-1?q?Florin=20Betivoiu?= <flow_of_rhin@yahoo.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: floppy Message-ID: <20031009093326.R7272-100000@floyd.gnulife.org> In-Reply-To: <20031009072803.23589.qmail@web80511.mail.yahoo.com>
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You've mixed up your input and output files when you run dd. This is what it should be: dd if=3D/dev/null of=3D/dev/fd0 You had them swapped, so you were reading the floppy and writing to /dev/null. - Jamie On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, [iso-8859-1] Florin Betivoiu wrote: > > Hello. > I am trying to mount a floppy. Don't know what is it that I do wrong, > cause it doens't work... I have asked for help before, even here, but th= e > problem still is not solved :( . > > I am using FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE. The same happend with 5.0-RELEASE, but wi= th FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE, floppy worked ok. > > This is my uname: > FreeBSD pony 5.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE #0: Wed Sep 24 21:40:11 EEST= 2003 root@pony:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/PONY i386 > > This is what I can see in dmesg: > fdc0: <Enhanced floppy controller (i82077, NE72065 or clone)> port 0x3f7,= 0x3f0-0x3f5 irq 6 drq 2 on acpi0 > fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold > fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0 > > This is what mount says: > root@pony# mount -t msdosfs /dev/fd0 /mnt/ > msdosfs: /dev/fd0: Input/output error > > The first time I asked for help, someone suggested I should do this with > dd. I must say that if I reboot to Linux, floppy works ok: > root@pony# dd if=3D/dev/fd0 of=3D/dev/null > > And this is what hapend: > dd: /dev/fd0: Input/output error > > Thanks in advance for any suggestions. > > > > --------------------------------- > Want to chat instantly with your online friends?=A0Get the FREE Yahoo!Mes= senger > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg" > "A friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself."
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