Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 01:57:30 +0100 From: Jens Rehsack <rehsack@liwing.de> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: cannot access floppy drive Message-ID: <3DE1757A.9000807@liwing.de> References: <3DE13CA3.7010907@liwing.de> <3DE13F3B.7030108@liwing.de> <20021125005543.GC15728@gothmog.gr>
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Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> On 2002-11-24 22:06, Jens Rehsack <rehsack@liwing.de> 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: <Enhanced floppy controller (i82077, NE72065 or clone)> 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
Mine say:
-bash-2.05b# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 count=10
dd: /dev/fd0: Device not configured
1+0 records in
0+0 records out
0 bytes transferred in 0.000684 secs (0 bytes/sec)
I think he hates me :-)
I would try another floppy if it wouldn't work using a boot disk.
Jens
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