From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 23 12:54:47 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32B6C37B401 for ; Mon, 23 Jun 2003 12:54:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sccrmhc11.attbi.com (sccrmhc11.comcast.net [204.127.202.55]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 764B243F85 for ; Mon, 23 Jun 2003 12:54:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bmah@acm.org) Received: from bmah.dyndns.org ([12.240.204.110]) by attbi.com (sccrmhc11) with ESMTP id <20030623195445011007ihgie>; Mon, 23 Jun 2003 19:54:45 +0000 Received: from intruder.bmah.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bmah.dyndns.org (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h5NJsdnE027595; Mon, 23 Jun 2003 12:54:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bmah@intruder.bmah.org) Received: (from bmah@localhost) by intruder.bmah.org (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h5NJsYkE027594; Mon, 23 Jun 2003 12:54:34 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 12:54:34 -0700 From: "Bruce A. Mah" To: Fortuna Message-ID: <20030623195434.GA27565@intruder.bmah.org> References: <001501c33810$342814a0$6701a8c0@cn2> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="NzB8fVQJ5HfG6fxh" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <001501c33810$342814a0$6701a8c0@cn2> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Image-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/Images/bmah-cisco-small.gif X-url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/ cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Floppy Mounting Error X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 19:54:47 -0000 --NzB8fVQJ5HfG6fxh Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable If memory serves me right, Fortuna wrote: > I am currently having a floppy disk drive problem. I have searched all o= ver the Internet for a solution to my problem and I have not found an answe= r. You are my last resort. =20 >=20 > For a long time I always mounted the floppy drive by typing, "mount /dev/= fd0 /floppy," and it worked fine. Then one day I rebooted the system witho= ut unmounting 'fd0,' and now I cannot access it. =20 >=20 > I have tried different command combinations and nothing works. =20 >=20 > I keep on getting the following error: > mount: /dev/fd0: Device not configured >=20 > Later after researching my problem, I found out that I could have used 'm= tools' all along. When I tried using 'mtools,' to access the 'fd0' I get t= he following error: > plain_io: Device not configured > init A: could not read boot sector > cannot initialize 'A:' >=20 > Do you have any suggestions. I would really appreciate it if you can hel= p out. This is a list for discussions about writing documentation for FreeBSD. Questions such as this should go to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org. Good luck! Bruce. --NzB8fVQJ5HfG6fxh Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+91r62MoxcVugUsMRAulmAJ0TnANEotvIOi6VNAG1BfHdKj0+VgCg1BuL eQ5v/GE3EeN+QuGApvYAXKE= =7aIH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --NzB8fVQJ5HfG6fxh--