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On Monday 18 July 2011 19:45:27 James Colannino wrote:
> 
> newfs /dev/da0
> 
> It was successful.  I then tried to mount the new filesystem (mount
> /dev/da0 /mnt), and got the same error: invalid argument.  Does FBSD
> have a problem mounting USB floppy disks?  It's not a big deal, as my
> other USB storage devices seem to work, and as I have an ordinary floppy
> drive I can try, but that curious part of me wants to know why this
> isn't working.
> 

 Have you tried: 

	mount_msdosfs /dev/da0 /mnt

Peg