problems with msdos floppies in 5.0
    Eduardo Viruena Silva 
    mrspock at esfm.ipn.mx
       
    Sun Apr 13 14:41:21 PDT 2003
    
    
  
Hello FreeBSD gurus!
I'm running FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE p7.
I cannot mount msdos diskettes, I tried:
	mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt
I get:
	# mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt
	msdosfs: /dev/fd0: Input/output error
	#
I thought my diskette was damaged, or my drive broken, or my cable...
I checked everything. I even bought a new floppy drive.  Nothing.
Now, with another computer, a very old one, I made a MS-DOS boot disk, I
used it to boot the computer where the problem is happening and I could
read and write files to my diskettes.
I also tried mtools, and they didn't work either.
		# mdir
                plain_io: Input/output error
		init A: could not read boot sector
		Cannot initialize 'A:'
		#
Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance.
    
    
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