I can't mount dos formatted 1.44mb floppy in FreeBSD 5.0
Josh Paetzel
friar_josh at tcbug.org
Sun Dec 14 10:31:10 PST 2003
On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 10:14:48AM -0800, nil ban wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Plz tell me how I'll be able to mount 1.44mb dos
> formatted(fat filesystem) floppy. Whenever I give the
> command #mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy,
> I get the following promt;
> msdosfs: /dev/fd0: Input/output error.
> I also wrote msdosfs instead of msdos and try other
> floppies but the result is same. I can read and write
> in those floppies in windows so I think the floppies
> are not defective.
>
> And plz tell me how to format floppy with
> FAT and UFS.
>
> Thanks & Regards
>
For starters, I would install the /usr/ports/emulators/mtools port. This
allows you to format, read, and write to floppies like you would from DOS.
For using floppies under FreeBSD you may want to take a look at the following
handbook page:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/floppies.html
Thanks,
Josh Paetzel
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