floppy

[Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.]

Jamie wrote:

>On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, [iso-8859-1] Florin Betivoiu wrote:
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>>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 the
>> problem still is not solved :( .
>>
>>I am using FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE. The same happend with 5.0-RELEASE, but with 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 command is "mount_msdosfs".

$mount_msdosfs /dev/fd0 /mnt

HTH,

Kevin Kinsey
DaleCo, S.P.