I need help mounting a floppy
Willy Dingledorf
howdoyouspellabc at yahoo.com
Mon Mar 22 03:41:14 PST 2004
Gentlemen,
This note is a continuation of a thread which started last week ... and actually, the problem is almost resolved.
The problem began when a newbie (me) downloaded and installed FreeBSD version 5.2, and then was unable to mount a floppy disk.
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Richard Williamson wrote:
Can you give us the Output of
$ls /dev/fd0
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Yes ... here it is:
ls: /dev/fd0: No such file or directory
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Stephen Liu wrote:
Please try
ls -l /dev | grep fd0
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My PC output is:
#
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Stephen Liu wrote:
Did you have /mnt created. Please try
# ls -l / | grep mnt
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My PC output is:
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Jan 10 21:44 mnt
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Stephen Liu wrote:
Did you have /floppy created. Try
# ls / | grep floppy
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My PC output is:
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Mar 16 03:53 floppy
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Kevin Kinsey wrote:
What do you see when you type this from the console?
$grep fd /var/log/dmesg.today
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My PC output mentions fdc0 several times.
For example:
pci0: <display, VGA> at device 10.0 (no driver attached)
pci0: <multimedia, audio> at device 12.0 (no driver attached)
fdc0: cannot reserve I/O port range (1 ports)
:
:
psm0: <PS/2 Mouse> irq 12 on atkbdc0
psm0: model Generic PS/2 mouse, device ID/0
fdc0: cannot reserve I/0 port range (1 ports)
:
:
orm0: <Option ROMS> at iomem 0xc8000-0xc8fff, 0xc000-0xc7fff on isa0
ptimer on isa0
fdc0: cannot reserve I/O port range (6 ports)
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Odhiambo Washington wrote:
If you look at /var/run/dmesg.boot, do you see entries like these:
fdc0: <Enhanced floppy controller (i82077, NE72065 or clone)>
port 0x3f7,0x3f0-0x3f5 irq 6 drq 2 on acpi0
fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold
fdc0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0
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No.
My PC output mentions fdc0 several times, and I think the lines are
identical to the lines that came from /var/log/dmesg.today
For example:
fdc0: cannot reserve I/O port range (1 ports)
fdc0: cannot reserve I/O port range (6 ports)
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Later, I installed FreeBSD version 5.2.1
There were no improvements in my symptoms ... I still could not mount a floppy disk.
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Still later (since JJ Barbish warned me that I might have to go back a version or two), I installed FreeBSD version 4.7 which was the one that came in the SAM's Book that I bought.
Now, /var/run/dmesg.boot has lines which read:
pci0: <S3 ViRGE graphics accelerator> at 10.0 irq 10
pci0: <unknown card> (vendor=0x1274, dev=0x5000) at 12.0 irq 9
orm0: <Option ROMs> at iomem 0xc0000-0xc7fff,0xc8000-0xc8fff on isa0
fdc0: <NEC 72065B or clone> at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on
isa0
fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold
fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0
And now, I can mount the floppy disk ( and now I can provide the boot-log if anyone wants to see it )
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So now that we know that FreeBSD previously had a feature that has since been disabled, is there anything I can do to make FreeBSD version 5.2.1 work on my
computer ?
If not, I assume that I will have to stick with version 4.9 for now ?
Willy
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