Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2001 16:33:25 +0100 From: ian j hart <ianjhart@ntlworld.com> To: Julio Merino <juli@merino.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Reading 720kb floppies Message-ID: <3B9B8BC5.F54A5F3E@ntlworld.com> References: <20010908193852.A5190@juli.local>
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Julio Merino wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'm getting errors when trying to read 720kb floppies under FreeBSD. > This hapens either with mtools or with mount_msdos (all 720kb floppies > fail). > > Is this a kernel issue? How can I access them? > > Thanks. > > -- > FreeBSD is the power-- > Julio Merino <juli@merino.net> ICQ: 18961975 What's the error message? I had this earlier in the week. This was with a new shrink wrapped box of disks. I assumed it was the pre-formating, which is not reliable. Too much to do, I used another disk. If you didn't format the disk, do so. Cannot confirm this 'till monday but with week old stable and formatted disk this works. alpha# mount -t msdos /dev/fd0.720 /mnt Try this. alpha# dd if=/dev/fd0.720 of=test.flp bs='9*512' 160+0 records in 160+0 records out 737280 bytes transferred in 48.969206 secs (15056 bytes/sec) <stupid ideas> Are you root? You do have a floppy disk drive, not an LS120? It is an MS-DOS disk, not Acorn, Amiga, Atari, copy protected... Don't write protect the disk. Does a 1440k disk work? Does the LED come on and go off? You sell magnets for a living :) </stupid ideas> -- ian j hart To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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