Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 14:52:26 -0700 From: <floess@earthlink.net> To: freebsd support <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.org> Subject: follow-up accessing my floppy Message-ID: <Springmail.0994.1029880346.0.49877000@webmail.pas.earthlink.net>
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Ok, this is a long one. I had written before about accessing my floppy, and
got a few pieces of advice, that put me to work for a while, and one of them
included building the mtools port. So, I went to do this. But when I used the
makeinstall command in the ports/emulators/mtools directory, I got this
response:
>>mtools-3.9.8.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles
>>internet not working
and then I got:
>>stop in /usr/ports/emulators/mtools
>>***error code 1
Before this attempt to install mtools, I had attempted to access my cdrom, and
have since searched your archives for someone who had the same problem
accessing their cdrom, which can basically be summarized by the fact that I
can cd to my cdrom and cdrom1, but when I ls I don't get anything. The drive
doesn't even respond. But here's the address to that guys query (sorry, I
guess my mail server doesn't support hyperlinks.
http://listserver.uk.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-users/2001-December/004982.html
I followed the advice at that address, and of the subsequent correspondences.
As root I tried using the command lines:
#mkdir /tmp/cdrom
#mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0 /tmp/cdrom
and got the message:
cd9660: /dev/acd0: noi such file or directory
When I tried to mount my floppy using:
#mkdir /tmp/floppy
#mount -t msdos /dev/acd0 /tmp/floppy
I got this error:
fd0c: hard error reading fsbn 0 of 0-3 (no status)
I also tried several variations of these. This
is an extraction from my dmesg had these lines:
fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" DRIVE> on fdc0 drive 0
acd0: DVD-ROM <ATAPI 12X DVDROM> at ata1-master using PIO4
acd0: CD-RW <LG CD-RW CED-8080B> at ata1-slave using PIO4
When all my attempts to get something to workout for me failed, I looked in my
/dev directory, and found it strange that fd0 and acd0 weren't even in there.
Is that normal, or is there something wrong here? I tried using cd0a, which
was in there to mount my cdrom that way, and got the message:
cd9660: /dev/cd0a: device not cnfigured
I kind of figured this wouldn't work but just thought I should at least try.I
realize this is long, and don't really expect all my probs solved, but any
kind of progress at this point would really be nice. I'm running FreeBSD 4.5.
Thanx, Desmond
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