Format floppy problem

[Terry L. Tyson Jr.]

On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 09:21:34AM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> FreeBSD 5.2
> ==========
> 
> Floppies formatted on M$Win can be mounted, copied files to and read, etc.
> 
> But floppies formatted on FreeBSD with
> 
> $ fdformat /dev/fd0
> Format 1440K floppy `/dev/fd0'? (y/n): y
> Processing VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV done.
> 
> they could not be mounted
> 
> $ mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /usr/home/user/floppy
> msdosfs: /dev/fd0: Invalid argument
> 
> I tested 3 floppies with the same result.  Kindly advise how to fix this 
> problem.  Is there a special format floppy command for FreeBSD.
> 
> TIA
> 
> Stephen Liu

Try your mount command again without the "-t msdos" since it isn't a
dos formatted disk.

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Terry L. Tyson Jr.
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ty at tyson.homeunix.org