problems with msdos floppies in 5.0

[CARTER Anthony]

Yeah, I am getting frustrated too...

Ok, to at least mount, you can do this:

mount_msdosfs /dev/fd0.1440 /mnt

However, I want mtools to work with it.../dev/fd0 doesn't work...And I can't 
find info about setting up my floppy drive. Mtools reports:

Can't open /dev/fd0.720: Permission denied

1) Why freebsd5 uses .720 as default is beyond me
2) How can I get mtools to use 1440 instead...
3) I know it is a kernel option so that /dev/fd0 gets created properly, BUT 
WHERE?

Thanks,

Anthony

On Monday 14 April 2003 15:41, Eduardo Viruena Silva wrote:
> Hello pals!
>
> 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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