From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 20 4:40:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp013.mail.yahoo.com (smtp013.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.173.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E636E37B414 for ; Mon, 20 Aug 2001 04:40:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rmardo@yahoo.com) Received: from unknown (HELO rino) (202.69.161.169) by smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 20 Aug 2001 11:40:14 -0000 X-Apparently-From: Message-ID: <000801c1296f$5abc8ee0$a9a145ca@rino> From: "Rino Mardo" To: Subject: error reading fsbn 0 Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 19:47:20 +0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 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 alright this one i can't seem to isolate. i spent the whole day trying to find out where this is coming from but whenever i (or disklabel) does a mount of the floppy drive (/dev/afd0) i get: amnesiac# mount -t msdos /dev/afd0 /mnt afd0: reading primary partition table: error reading fsbn 0 i tested my fd in dos and linux and has no problems reading or writing to the same diskette or any diskette that i used. i reinstalled FreeBSD, checked whatever docs i could find, reformat diskettes either using msdos or ufs and i still get the same error message. btw, i'm using FreeBSD 4.2-R installed from a CD burned last April 15. in the same system i have win98 and linux which doesn't complain about anything regarding the fd. anyone has seen this problem and found the source of it? Rino -- Teach a man how to fish... well you know what I mean. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message