From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Sep 9 8:33:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from pc1-cove4-0-cust214.bir.cable.ntl.com (pc1-cove4-0-cust214.bir.cable.ntl.com [213.105.93.214]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 644F537B409 for ; Sun, 9 Sep 2001 08:33:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ntlworld.com (alpha.private [192.168.0.2]) (authenticated) by pc1-cove4-0-cust214.bir.cable.ntl.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f89FXQ411447 (using TLSv1/SSLv3 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128 bits) verified NO); Sun, 9 Sep 2001 16:33:48 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from ianjhart@ntlworld.com) Message-ID: <3B9B8BC5.F54A5F3E@ntlworld.com> Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2001 16:33:25 +0100 From: ian j hart X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Julio Merino Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Reading 720kb floppies References: <20010908193852.A5190@juli.local> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 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) 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 :) -- ian j hart To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message