From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 2 6: 0:56 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smarthost-2.mail.telinco.net (smarthost-2.mail.telinco.net [212.1.128.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFB2437B416 for ; Sat, 2 Mar 2002 06:00:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from ppp-3-100.5800-9.telinco.net ([212.1.138.100] helo=basilisk.locus) by smarthost-2.mail.telinco.net with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1) id 16hA45-000Giv-00; Sat, 02 Mar 2002 14:00:46 +0000 Received: (from harry@localhost) by basilisk.locus (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g22E0BG37456; Sat, 2 Mar 2002 14:00:11 GMT (envelope-from harry@basilisk.locus) To: dave_ontario@yahoo.com (bst) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Floppy mounting. References: <3c7d89bd.454479036@news.peterboro.net> From: Harry Newton Organization: GAUDEAMUS X-Op.135: Muss es sein ? Es muss sein X-Attribution: HN X-GnuPG-Fingerprint: 497E C8CD 0553 5EB4 1AE3 3BF5 D041 39E0 35E4 7F8B Date: 02 Mar 2002 14:00:11 +0000 In-Reply-To: <3c7d89bd.454479036@news.peterboro.net> Message-ID: <86vgcf2hp0.fsf@basilisk.locus> Lines: 72 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 I think you need to use /dev/fd0c ( N.B. the appended 'c' ). (4)% grep floppy /etc/fstab /dev/fd0c /mnt/floppy msdos rw,noauto 0 0 Your kernel configuration is what I have, though I only have one floppy drive. Format the floppy with: fdformat /dev/fd0 ( N.B. No 'c' ) And, put an MSDOS filesystem on it with: newfs_msdos -f 1440 fd0 Rather than mounting a floppy by hand, have a look at the mtools port ( emulators/mtools ). Also consider using the automounter, amd(8). To put a unix filesystem on the floppy, format it as before, and then do: disklabel -B -r -w fd0.1440 fd1440 newfs -m 0 fd0 This can then be mounted with: mount /dev/fd0 /floppy_mount_point and of course, you can fsck(8) the disk with a unix filesystem: fsck /dev/fd0 Hope this is of use ! Cheers, - Harry >>>>> "bst" == bst wrote: bst> I cant mount my floppy drive. bst> here is a snippet from my new kernel (freebsd 4.5 stable) bst> # Floppy drives bst> device fdc0 at isa? port IO_FD1 irq 6 drq 2 bst> device fd0 at fdc0 drive 0 bst> device fd1 at fdc0 drive 1 bst> # bst> i tried mounting a ufs and fat, but nothing.. bst> mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy bst> mount: /dev/fd0: Device not configured bst> i tried various methods aswell bst> something im missing?? -- Harry Newton harry_newton at telinco.co.uk www.gaudeamus.telinco.co.uk/html/gpg.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message