From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 30 03:26:51 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 6E9C116A4E0 for ; Wed, 30 Aug 2006 03:26:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ajm91qw@sbcglobal.net) Received: from smtp112.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com (smtp112.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.198.211]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B5D9F43D46 for ; Wed, 30 Aug 2006 03:26:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ajm91qw@sbcglobal.net) Received: (qmail 83795 invoked from network); 30 Aug 2006 03:26:50 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=sbcglobal.net; h=Received:Date:From:To:Subject:Message-ID:References:Mime-Version:Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To:User-Agent; b=q5uWeKoGLwNpDnN5LgDz+qzYSqvWsFW8FONG5L/pIu64M4bynqxFK2xoBC5W5AChnSqnbra+c6YDmM21ViuCPOGBn1TXwDhbd39jq0symSlI4UiGPrikrcPh5S9ziYo+VdJPmmZSn58/fQWP/TBoKsLfUr4XptHirKBPkClUrfw= ; Received: from unknown (HELO localhost) (ajm91qw@sbcglobal.net@75.16.208.200 with plain) by smtp112.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com with SMTP; 30 Aug 2006 03:26:49 -0000 Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 22:28:22 -0500 From: ajm To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20060830032822.GA908@powerfull.bsd> References: <34702.127.0.0.1.1156765075.squirrel@mithlond.net> <20060829010942.GA710@powerfull.bsd> <56608.127.0.0.1.1156847226.squirrel@mithlond.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <56608.127.0.0.1.1156847226.squirrel@mithlond.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Subject: Re: having hard time with mounting floppies X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 03:26:51 -0000 On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 01:27:06PM +0300, Tuomas wrote: > ajm, > > Thanks for taking the pains to reply. > > This is what I tried: > > localhost# newfs -L FreeBSD /dev/fd0 > newfs: wtfs: 512 bytes at sector 2879: Input/output error > localhost# newfs_msdos -f 1440 -L MSDOS /dev/fd0 > /dev/fd0: 2847 sectors in 2847 FAT12 clusters (512 bytes/cluster) > bps=512 spc=1 res=1 nft=2 rde=224 sec=2880 mid=0xf0 spf=9 spt=18 hds=2 hid=0 > newfs_msdos: /dev/fd0: Input/output error > > On another forum, someone suggested to me that I should try FreeBSD 6.x. > FreeBSD 5.x has, according to this guy, some problems with some floppies. > > So maybe I try FreeBSD 6.x, or I will use Linux on this machine. > > Thanks for the help, though. :-) > > Tuomas It's been a while since I had 5.3 on my system...but see if you have the following in your /dev directory. /dev/fd0.1440 if so try this: # fdformat /dev/fd0.1440 or try mformat a: you must have this port installed for mformat to work: /usr/ports/emulators/mtools -- FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE i386 GENERIC