From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 1 14:04:45 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93075106564A for ; Fri, 1 Oct 2010 14:04:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kuku@kukulies.org) Received: from werkwelt.de (post.werkwelt.de [91.194.85.74]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34C3E8FC1D for ; Fri, 1 Oct 2010 14:04:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [87.79.34.228] (account kuku@kukulies.org HELO [172.27.4.215]) by werkwelt.de (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0.13) with ESMTPSA id 7071122 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 15:04:42 +0200 Message-ID: <4CA5DC68.6040507@kukulies.org> Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2010 15:04:40 +0200 From: Christoph Kukulies User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; de; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100915 Thunderbird/3.1.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: 5.25" floppy drive 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: Fri, 01 Oct 2010 14:04:45 -0000 I'm in the need of reading some data from old 5.25" floppy media (1.2MB). I lent 2 drives from neighbour institutes at the university and after having recalled that the floppies have to be enabled in the BIOS I'm now seeing the fd0 device in dmesg (FreeBSD 8.0 RELEASE). I can do a dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/root/fd0.dmp The select light is lit, the head motor seems to get power but the spindle doesn't spin. I tried that with two TEAC drives to no avail. Any clues what I may have forgotten? The drive is connected with the edge connector and the end is open. Does it need to be terminated? -- Christoph