Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 03:41:14 -0800 (PST) From: Willy Dingledorf <howdoyouspellabc@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: I need help mounting a floppy Message-ID: <20040322114114.66792.qmail@web21506.mail.yahoo.com>
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Gentlemen, This note is a continuation of a thread which started last week ... and actually, the problem is almost resolved. The problem began when a newbie (me) downloaded and installed FreeBSD version 5.2, and then was unable to mount a floppy disk. ************************************ Richard Williamson wrote: Can you give us the Output of $ls /dev/fd0 -------------------------- Yes ... here it is: ls: /dev/fd0: No such file or directory ************************************ Stephen Liu wrote: Please try ls -l /dev | grep fd0 -------------------------- My PC output is: # ************************************ Stephen Liu wrote: Did you have /mnt created. Please try # ls -l / | grep mnt -------------------------- My PC output is: drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Jan 10 21:44 mnt ************************************ Stephen Liu wrote: Did you have /floppy created. Try # ls / | grep floppy -------------------------- My PC output is: drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Mar 16 03:53 floppy ************************************ Kevin Kinsey wrote: What do you see when you type this from the console? $grep fd /var/log/dmesg.today -------------------------- My PC output mentions fdc0 several times. For example: pci0: <display, VGA> at device 10.0 (no driver attached) pci0: <multimedia, audio> at device 12.0 (no driver attached) fdc0: cannot reserve I/O port range (1 ports) : : psm0: <PS/2 Mouse> irq 12 on atkbdc0 psm0: model Generic PS/2 mouse, device ID/0 fdc0: cannot reserve I/0 port range (1 ports) : : orm0: <Option ROMS> at iomem 0xc8000-0xc8fff, 0xc000-0xc7fff on isa0 ptimer on isa0 fdc0: cannot reserve I/O port range (6 ports) ************************************ Odhiambo Washington wrote: If you look at /var/run/dmesg.boot, do you see entries like these: fdc0: <Enhanced floppy controller (i82077, NE72065 or clone)> port 0x3f7,0x3f0-0x3f5 irq 6 drq 2 on acpi0 fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold fdc0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0 -------------------------- No. My PC output mentions fdc0 several times, and I think the lines are identical to the lines that came from /var/log/dmesg.today For example: fdc0: cannot reserve I/O port range (1 ports) fdc0: cannot reserve I/O port range (6 ports) ************************************ Later, I installed FreeBSD version 5.2.1 There were no improvements in my symptoms ... I still could not mount a floppy disk. ************************************ Still later (since JJ Barbish warned me that I might have to go back a version or two), I installed FreeBSD version 4.7 which was the one that came in the SAM's Book that I bought. Now, /var/run/dmesg.boot has lines which read: pci0: <S3 ViRGE graphics accelerator> at 10.0 irq 10 pci0: <unknown card> (vendor=0x1274, dev=0x5000) at 12.0 irq 9 orm0: <Option ROMs> at iomem 0xc0000-0xc7fff,0xc8000-0xc8fff on isa0 fdc0: <NEC 72065B or clone> at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0 fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0 And now, I can mount the floppy disk ( and now I can provide the boot-log if anyone wants to see it ) ***************************************** So now that we know that FreeBSD previously had a feature that has since been disabled, is there anything I can do to make FreeBSD version 5.2.1 work on my computer ? If not, I assume that I will have to stick with version 4.9 for now ? Willy Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time.
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