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Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 03:06:01 +0200
From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To: Jens Rehsack <rehsack@liwing.de>
Cc: questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: cannot access floppy drive
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On 2002-11-25 01:57, Jens Rehsack <rehsack@liwing.de> wrote:
> Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> >Floppy access works mostly fine here in a fairly recent snapshot:
> >
> ># 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)
>
> Mine say:
> 
> -bash-2.05b# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 count=10
> dd: /dev/fd0: Device not configured

Is this with a GENERIC kernel?
If not, do you have 'device fdc' in your kernel config?

It seems that your floppy hasn't been recognised by the running
kernel.  If you are running a kernel that *does* include support for
floppy disks, this is probably a bug that we should address.

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