Format floppy problem

[Stephen Liu]

On Wednesday 17 March 2004 00:40, Terry L. Tyson Jr. wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 09:21:34AM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote:
> >
> > 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.
> >
>
> Try your mount command again without the "-t msdos" since it isn't a
> dos formatted disk.

Hi Terry,

$ mount /dev/fd0 /usr/home/user/floppy
mount: /dev/fd0 on /usr/home/user/floppy: incorrect super block
$ mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /usr/home/user/floppy
mount: exec mount_vfat not found in /sbin:/usr/sbin: No such file or directory
$ mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /usr/home/user/floppy
msdosfs: /dev/fd0: Invalid argument

Stephen