From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 27 11:47:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FDEF37B405 for ; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 11:47:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-a065.otenet.gr [212.205.215.65]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.11.5/8.11.5) with ESMTP id fARJl2825336; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 21:47:03 +0200 (EET) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fARJ7D510005; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 21:07:14 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from charon@labs.gr) Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 21:07:13 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: "Dracopoulos, Dimitris" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cannot boot from floppy and cannot read/write it any more - But it works in Linux somehow Message-ID: <20011127190713.GH8434@hades.hell.gr> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [ Please do not cross-post. ] On 2001-11-26 18:51:00, Dracopoulos, Dimitris wrote: > > 2) I am not able to read or write a floppy while in FreeBSD (version 4.3). > Using mtools the lights comes on but I keep waiting. Mounting /dev/fd0 has a > similar problem and keep reporting errors periodically. Under no > circumstances I am able to read or write a floppy (I tried the GENERIC > kernel as well). What errors? Can you copy these errors that you see, and paste them in a message to the list? -giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message