floppy

[Jamie]

On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, [iso-8859-1] Florin Betivoiu wrote:

>
> Hello.
> I am trying to mount a floppy. Don't know what is it that I do wrong,
>  cause it doens't work... I have asked for help before, even here, but th=
e
>  problem still is not solved :( .
>
> I am using FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE. The same happend with 5.0-RELEASE, but wi=
th FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE, floppy worked ok.
>
> This is my uname:
> FreeBSD pony 5.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE #0: Wed Sep 24 21:40:11 EEST=
 2003 root at pony:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/PONY i386
>
> This is what I can see in dmesg:
> fdc0: <Enhanced floppy controller (i82077, NE72065 or clone)> port 0x3f7,=
0x3f0-0x3f5 irq 6 drq 2 on acpi0
> fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold
> fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0
>
> This is what mount says:
> root at pony# mount -t msdosfs /dev/fd0 /mnt/
> msdosfs: /dev/fd0: Input/output error
>
> The first time I asked for help, someone suggested I should do this with
> dd. I must say that if I reboot to Linux, floppy works ok:
> root at pony# dd if=3D/dev/fd0 of=3D/dev/null
>
> And this is what hapend:
> dd: /dev/fd0: Input/output error


  Sorry Florin, I think I made a mistake in my original reply. You might
want to try this instead:

  dd if=3D/dev/zero of=3D/dev/fd0 bs=3D1024

  Then you need to create a filesystem on the disk:

  mkfs -t ext2 /dev/fd0

  Then you can try mounting it:

  mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy



    - Jamie



>
> Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
>
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