From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 8 7:13:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 652FD37B401 for ; Tue, 8 Oct 2002 07:13:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2C1543E42 for ; Tue, 8 Oct 2002 07:13:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) id g98EDii10700; Tue, 8 Oct 2002 10:13:44 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200210081413.g98EDii10700@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Subject: Re: floppy disk To: xxavi@MyRealBox.com Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 10:13:44 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "xxavi@MyRealBox.com" at Oct 07, 2002 09:09:58 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 > > # mount /dev/fd0c /drives/fd > grep: /etc/vfstab: No such file or directory > grep: /etc/vfstab: No such file or directory > mount: /dev/fd0c: Device not configured > > > *** mount: /dev/fd0c: Device not configured *** > > > hi, if the order "mount" means that the device is not > configured,it has to be configured, isn't it?? so, how it has > to be done? Often the 'Device not configured' message appears to mean that you do not have a floppy disk in the drive (or a tape in a tape drive). It can also mean that you have to go in to the /dev directory and do a './MAKEDEV xxx' for it where xxx is the device. Normally you would not actually do a mount for a floppy unless you have a disk that has a file system built on it. A lot of times people just copy things directly to or from the device using 'dd' and in this case you don't actually do a mount. But, if you write a floppy don't make a file system on the disk and mount it, things like grep and ls won't work on it. There are no files for them to look at, just a glob of data. (Actually, I have been having trouble with many machines writing to DAT tape drives (DDS-3 and DDS-4) using dd (or cp) when tar and dump work just fine. But, that is another story and I should post some questions on that separately.) ////jerry > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message