having hard time with mounting floppies

[Tuomas]

Mikhail,

> I suspect the problem does not lie in FreeBSD, but elsewhere. Have you
> tried using different floppy discs? Specially another brand? Maybe the
> cable connecting your floppy drive is playing on you or even the drive
> itself is faulty.

If this were the case, would I notice it with Linux, too? Kubuntu LiveCD
lets me use the floppy drive. In any case, I will try mtools.

Thanks for your help!

Tuomas