Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 15:55:20 +0200 From: CARTER Anthony <a.carter@cordis.lu> To: Eduardo Viruena Silva <mrspock@esfm.ipn.mx>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problems with msdos floppies in 5.0 Message-ID: <200304141555.20116.a.carter@intrasoft.lu> In-Reply-To: <20030414083917.O58506@Gina.esfm.ipn.mx> References: <20030414083917.O58506@Gina.esfm.ipn.mx>
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Yeah, I am getting frustrated too... Ok, to at least mount, you can do this: mount_msdosfs /dev/fd0.1440 /mnt However, I want mtools to work with it.../dev/fd0 doesn't work...And I can't find info about setting up my floppy drive. Mtools reports: Can't open /dev/fd0.720: Permission denied 1) Why freebsd5 uses .720 as default is beyond me 2) How can I get mtools to use 1440 instead... 3) I know it is a kernel option so that /dev/fd0 gets created properly, BUT WHERE? Thanks, Anthony On Monday 14 April 2003 15:41, Eduardo Viruena Silva wrote: > Hello pals! > > I'm running FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE p7. > > I cannot mount msdos diskettes, I tried: > > mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt > > I get: > > # mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt > msdosfs: /dev/fd0: Input/output error > # > > I thought my diskette was damaged, or my drive broken, or my cable... > I checked everything, I even bought a new floppy drive. Nothing. > > Now, with another computer, a very old one, I made a MS-DOS boot disk, I > used it to boot the computer where the problem is happening and I could > read and write files to my diskettes. > > I also tried mtools, and they didn't work either. > > # mdir > plain_io: Input/output error > init A: could not read boot sector > Cannot initialize 'A:' > # > > Any suggestions? > > Thanks in advance. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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