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Hello,
Installed FreeBSD 6.0 last year, been using as cross development for VME.
But discovered can not mount floppy drive, hardware seems ok, per below. 
However,
mount command fails. Any ideas for me?

Thanks
Tom

Sun Ultra 1 UPA/SBus (UltraSPARC 200MHz), Keyboard Present
OpenBoot 3.11, 512 MB memory installed, Serial #8388337.

Tesed wirh No Floppy in drive:
ok test floppy
Testing floppy disk system.  A formatted disk should be in the drive.
No diskette, or incorrect format.

floppy selftest failed. Return code = -1
ok

Tesed wirh Floppy in drive:
ok test floppy
Testing floppy disk system.  A formatted disk should be in the drive.
Test succeeded.
ok
ok eject
ok


Booting:
FreeBSD/sparc64 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.0
(root@s-dallas.cse.buffalo.edu, Wed Nov  2 09:45:36 UTC 2005)
bootpath="/sbus@1f,0/SUNW,fas@e,8800000/sd@0,0:a"

After boot:

# mount /dev/fd/0 /mnt
mount: /dev/fd/0: Block device required
#

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