mtools can't access drive A

[Steven Friedrich]

On Wednesday 25 August 2004 03:32 pm, Josh Paetzel wrote:
> On Wednesday 25 August 2004 14:03, Steven Friedrich wrote:
> > I just installed mtools today.  I'm tracking 4.10 STABLE and my
> > ports tree was updated yesterday.
> >
> > I get an error:
> > root at lightning(p1)/usr/src 114% mdir a:
> > Can't open /dev/fd0.720: Device not configured
> > Cannot initialize 'A:'
> >
> >
> > dev says:
> > root at lightning(p1)/dev 116% ll fd0*
> > crw-r-----  18 root  operator    9,   0 Jul  7 01:00 fd0
> > crw-r-----   2 root  operator    9,   4 Jul  7 01:00 fd0.1200
> > crw-r-----   2 root  operator    9,  10 Jul  7 01:00 fd0.1232
> > crw-r-----   2 root  operator    9,   3 Jul 29 00:39 fd0.1440
> > crw-r-----   2 root  operator    9,   2 Jul  7 01:00 fd0.1480
> > crw-r-----   2 root  operator    9,   1 Jul  7 01:00 fd0.1720
> > crw-r-----   2 root  operator    9,   8 Jul  7 01:00 fd0.360
> > crw-r-----   2 root  operator    9,   9 Jul  7 01:00 fd0.640
> > crw-r-----   2 root  operator    9,   7 Jul  7 01:00 fd0.720
> > crw-r-----   2 root  operator    9,   6 Jul  7 01:00 fd0.800
> > crw-r-----   2 root  operator    9,   5 Jul  7 01:00 fd0.820
> > crw-r-----  18 root  operator    9,   0 Jul  7 01:00 fd0a
> > crw-r-----  18 root  operator    9,   0 Jul  7 01:00 fd0b
> > crw-r-----  18 root  operator    9,   0 Jul  7 01:00 fd0c
> > crw-r-----  18 root  operator    9,   0 Jul  7 01:00 fd0d
> > crw-r-----  18 root  operator    9,   0 Jul  7 01:00 fd0e
> > crw-r-----  18 root  operator    9,   0 Jul  7 01:00 fd0f
> > crw-r-----  18 root  operator    9,   0 Jul  7 01:00 fd0g
> > crw-r-----  18 root  operator    9,   0 Jul  7 01:00 fd0h
> >
> > I first saw this on my -CURRENT box and figured it was devfs
> > related, but I hadn't researched it yet. Now I have it on my
> > -STABLE boxes.
> >
> > Any ideas?
>
> Take a look in /usr/local/etc for a mtools.conf.sample  Edit to taste
> and copy it to mtools.conf
>
> Thanks,
>
> Josh Paetzel
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Thanks for the response, but still no joy...
Is there a daemon process that needs to be started by rc.conf or does it 
require linux compat?