Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 12:42:06 -0400 (EDT) From: Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu> To: Mark Hendriks <markh@lon.imag.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Configure floppy on 4.0-release Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.21.0004271240140.29095-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu> In-Reply-To: <00042712091200.00374@mymachine.imag.net>
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On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Mark Hendriks wrote: > On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Zhihui Zhang wrote: > > When I do "mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy" under 4.0-Release, it responds > > "device not configured". I tried the old trick as follows, they won't > > work: > > > > (1) During boot up, I hit spacebar to bring the loader menu: > > > > ok boot -c > > .... > > cconfig> en fdc0 > > > > (2) Edit the file /boot/kern.conf to add the following line: > > > > en fdc0 > > > > What is the problem? Thanks for any help. > > If you've altered your kernel configuration from GENERIC, you may want to > check that file also. You really shouldn't have to do any other > configuration for a floppy if it's included in the kernel, and you really > shouldn't need the above line in your kern.conf file. Check for typos, and > compare what you've got to the appropriate line in the LINT file. > The kernel is the GENERIC kernel and I have not changed anything. I begin to wonder if there is a hardware problem. But dmesg says: config> enable fdc0 fdc0: <NEC 72065B or clone> at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0 fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold -Zhihui To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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