Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 09:57:04 +0930 From: Malcolm Kay <Malcolm.Kay@internode.on.net> To: Chris Pockele <chrisp@belgacom.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: floppy drive problem Message-ID: <200304220957.04930.Malcolm.Kay@internode.on.net> In-Reply-To: <20030421170801.GA23306@freedaemon.home.lan> References: <20030421170801.GA23306@freedaemon.home.lan>
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On Tue, 22 Apr 2003 02:38, Chris Pockele wrote: > Hello, > > I've got a 486 laptop running a FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE snapshot from > february 4th. Unfortunately its floppy drive is acting weird under > FreeBSD: > > nomad# mount -t msdos /dev/fd0a /mnt > fd0c: hard error reading fsbn 0 of 0-3 (ST0 40<abnrml> ST1 10<data_over= run> > ST2 0 cyl 0 hd 0 sec 1) > msdos: /dev/fd0a: Input/output error /dev/fd0a tries to address a ufs (bsd) partition -- i.e it assumes you ha= ve=20 created a ufs file system on the floppy, which is possible but unusual. If the system is ms-dos the device should be simply /dev/fd0 or a specifi= c size with say /dev/fd0.1440 try: nomad# mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt Most of us no longer bother with mounting msdos floppy disks but instead = use mtools from the ports or packages. Malcolm
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