From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 14 13:43:38 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA13410 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 14 Dec 1997 13:43:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from Bayou.UH.EDU (jef53313@Bayou.UH.EDU [129.7.1.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA13402 for ; Sun, 14 Dec 1997 13:43:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jef53313@Bayou.UH.EDU) Received: from localhost (jef53313@localhost) by Bayou.UH.EDU (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id PAA09951; Sun, 14 Dec 1997 15:43:27 -0600 (CST) Date: Sun, 14 Dec 1997 15:43:27 -0600 (CST) From: Jonathan Fosburgh To: Geoffrey Robinson cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Accessing Floppy Drive In-Reply-To: <3494467F.6B48DB7D@accessv.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I try using mount to mount a UNIX formatted floppy (formatted with > fdformat) in fd0 I get an error message about an incorrect super block. > What do I do? Check out /etc/disktab for info on the full procedure to create a UNIX format floppy. If all you did was to fdformat it, then you just did a low level format (man fdformat.) In order to make it a UNIX disk, you need to run disklabel and newfs on it. Jonathan Fosburgh, wotan@scientist.com , University of Houston Geophysics http://www.geocities.com/vienna/1498 FreeBSD: Turning PCs into Workstations http://www.freebsd.org ******************************************************************************* We shall not cease from exploration, And the end of our exploring shall be to arrive Where we started from, and know the place for the first time. --T.S. Eliot, The Four Quartets *******************************************************************************