From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 18 14:13:35 2003 Return-Path: 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 BF14E16A4CE for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2003 14:13:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF43F43FDD for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2003 14:13:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) id hAIMDXG05099; Tue, 18 Nov 2003 17:13:33 -0500 (EST) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200311182213.hAIMDXG05099@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: darryl@osborne-ind.com Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 17:13:32 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <02a001c3ae20$101405c0$0701a8c0@darryl> from "Darryl Hoar" at Nov 18, 2003 04:05:21 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: floppy disk - device not configured error X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 22:13:35 -0000 > > > > Check it and use MAKEDEV to make them > > (what happens after you get to 5.x I don't know yet, > > haven't been there) > > > > do cd /dev > > ls -l *fd0* > > if you don't find an 'rfd0c' then make one > > > > ./MAKEDEV fd0 should do it > > > > You might need to delete some stuff first as in > > > > rm *fdo* > > > > But, really, these should all be there because the system normally > > makes these by default. If they aren't there, something pooped > > along the line somewhere. > > > > Good luck, > > > > ////jerry > > > > I tried fdformat -f 1440 and it wanted the device. Tried it with > fdformat -f 1440 fd0, and got the device not configured. Tried > it with fdformat -f 1440 /dev/fd0, and got "device not configured". Hmmm. Have you checked dmesg to make sure the system even sees it? > cd /dev > ls -l *fd0* yeilds a lot of files. Guess I'll try the rm *fd0*, then > the ./MAKEDEV fd0 to see if it'll fix things. Well, if it has a fd0c and rfd0c then it should be good. But, I have had to do that for some other devices that looked like they were there - but not for a floppy drive that I remember. So, ...... Good luck. ////jerry > > thanks > Darryl >