From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 24 16:55:49 2002 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 5D5AB37B401 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 2002 16:55:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33BF443E4A for ; Sun, 24 Nov 2002 16:55:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from gothmog.gr (patr530-b147.otenet.gr [212.205.244.155]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gAP0tiYh012796; Mon, 25 Nov 2002 02:55:44 +0200 (EET) Received: from gothmog.gr (gothmog [127.0.0.1]) by gothmog.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gAP0thLP017143; Mon, 25 Nov 2002 02:55:43 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from keramida@localhost) by gothmog.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gAP0thq6017142; Mon, 25 Nov 2002 02:55:43 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 02:55:43 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Jens Rehsack Cc: questions Subject: Re: cannot access floppy drive Message-ID: <20021125005543.GC15728@gothmog.gr> References: <3DE13CA3.7010907@liwing.de> <3DE13F3B.7030108@liwing.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3DE13F3B.7030108@liwing.de> 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 On 2002-11-24 22:06, Jens Rehsack wrote: > Jens Rehsack wrote: > >Hi, > > > >though I have configured floppy access into kernel I cannot access > >floppies on my -CURRENT box. Neither 'cat /dev/fd0.1440 >/dev/null' > >works nor 'mdir a:'. > > What I have forgotten: on the same machine the floppy access works using > DOS (by boot disk!) or 4.7-STABLE Floppy access works mostly fine here in a fairly recent snapshot: # uname -v FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #0: Sun Nov 24 20:04:27 EET 2002 # grep fdc /var/run/dmesg.boot 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 # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 count=10 10+0 records in 10+0 records out 5120 bytes transferred in 1.290642 secs (3967 bytes/sec) # disklabel -B -r -w fd0.1440 fd1440 # newfs -i 65536 fd0.1440 /dev/fd0.1440: 1.4MB (2880 sectors) block size 16384, fragment size 2048 using 1 cylinder groups of 1.41MB, 90 blks, 128 inodes. super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at: 32 # mount /dev/fd0.1440 /mnt # df /mnt Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/fd0.1440 1374 16 1250 1% /mnt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message