Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2003 16:41:01 -0500 (CDT) From: Eduardo Viruena Silva <mrspock@esfm.ipn.mx> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: problems with msdos floppies in 5.0 Message-ID: <20030413162750.M49767@Gina.esfm.ipn.mx>
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Hello FreeBSD gurus!
I'm running FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE p7.
I cannot mount msdos diskettes, I tried:
mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt
I get:
# mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt
msdosfs: /dev/fd0: Input/output error
#
I thought my diskette was damaged, or my drive broken, or my cable...
I checked everything. I even bought a new floppy drive. Nothing.
Now, with another computer, a very old one, I made a MS-DOS boot disk, I
used it to boot the computer where the problem is happening and I could
read and write files to my diskettes.
I also tried mtools, and they didn't work either.
# mdir
plain_io: Input/output error
init A: could not read boot sector
Cannot initialize 'A:'
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Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance.
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