From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 9 07:48:34 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 67C6016A4BF for ; Thu, 9 Oct 2003 07:48:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from floyd.gnulife.org (floyd.gnulife.org [199.86.41.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A981843F3F for ; Thu, 9 Oct 2003 07:48:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jamie@gnulife.org) Received: by floyd.gnulife.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 4315A43448; Thu, 9 Oct 2003 09:59:58 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by floyd.gnulife.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 340E043446; Thu, 9 Oct 2003 09:59:58 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 09:59:58 -0500 (CDT) From: Jamie To: =?iso-8859-1?q?Florin=20Betivoiu?= In-Reply-To: <20031009072803.23589.qmail@web80511.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20031009095318.T7272-100000@floyd.gnulife.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=X-UNKNOWN Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: floppy 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, 09 Oct 2003 14:48:34 -0000 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: 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 Sorry Florin, I think I made a mistake in my original reply. You might want to try this instead: dd if=3D/dev/zero of=3D/dev/fd0 bs=3D1024 Then you need to create a filesystem on the disk: mkfs -t ext2 /dev/fd0 Then you can try mounting it: mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy - Jamie > > 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."