Floppy drive confusion

[Peter Elsner]

Is there a formatted floppy in the drive?



At 08:37 PM 8/13/2003 -0700, you wrote:
>OK, my fist trime trying to mount a floppy under FreebSD (4.8) isn't going so
>well.
>
>I've looked over the net and I think I have a problem.
>
>I tried the command:
>
>mount_msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt
>
>and variants with the slices added.  In all cases tried so far I get the
>error:
>
>mount_msdos: /dev/fd0: Device not configured
>
>Here's where I think the problem lies:  (from my dmesg.boot)
>
>fdc0: <NEC 72065B or clone> at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0
>fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold
>
>
>The significant thing here is, there's no fd0 device after the controller is
>detected.  I assume this must be why I can't mount my floppy.  Any idea how I
>can get fd0 to show up?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Erick Smith
>
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