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Date:      Mon, 25 Nov 2002 02:55:43 +0200
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To:        Jens Rehsack <rehsack@liwing.de>
Cc:        questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: cannot access floppy drive
Message-ID:  <20021125005543.GC15728@gothmog.gr>
In-Reply-To: <3DE13F3B.7030108@liwing.de>
References:  <3DE13CA3.7010907@liwing.de> <3DE13F3B.7030108@liwing.de>

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On 2002-11-24 22:06, Jens Rehsack <rehsack@liwing.de> wrote:
> Jens Rehsack wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >though I have configured floppy access into kernel I cannot access 
> >floppies on my -CURRENT box. Neither 'cat /dev/fd0.1440 >/dev/null' 
> >works nor 'mdir a:'.
> 
> What I have forgotten: on the same machine the floppy access works using 
> DOS (by boot disk!) or 4.7-STABLE

Floppy access works mostly fine here in a fairly recent snapshot:

# uname -v
FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #0: Sun Nov 24 20:04:27 EET 2002
# grep fdc /var/run/dmesg.boot
fdc0: <Enhanced floppy controller (i82077, NE72065 or clone)> port 0x3f7,0x3f0-0x3f5 irq 6 drq 2 on acpi0
fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold
fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0
# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 count=10
10+0 records in
10+0 records out
5120 bytes transferred in 1.290642 secs (3967 bytes/sec)
# disklabel -B -r -w fd0.1440 fd1440
# newfs -i 65536 fd0.1440
/dev/fd0.1440: 1.4MB (2880 sectors) block size 16384, fragment size 2048
        using 1 cylinder groups of 1.41MB, 90 blks, 128 inodes.
super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at:
 32
# mount /dev/fd0.1440 /mnt
# df /mnt
Filesystem    1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/fd0.1440      1374   16  1250     1%    /mnt

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