From owner-freebsd-stable Mon May 24 14: 1:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from relay.ucb.crimea.ua (relay.ucb.crimea.ua [212.110.138.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE07715399 for ; Mon, 24 May 1999 13:58:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ru@ucb.crimea.ua) Received: (from ru@localhost) by relay.ucb.crimea.ua (8.9.3/8.9.3/UCB) id XAA31760; Mon, 24 May 1999 23:53:45 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from ru) Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 23:53:45 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov To: David Kelly Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can't open /dev/rfd0: Device not configured Message-ID: <19990524235345.A28473@relay.ucb.crimea.ua> Mail-Followup-To: David Kelly , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: <199905241338.IAA05828@nospam.hiwaay.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <199905241338.IAA05828@nospam.hiwaay.net>; from David Kelly on Mon, May 24, 1999 at 08:38:21AM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.2-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, May 24, 1999 at 08:38:21AM -0500, David Kelly wrote: > Upgraded from 3.1-stable to 3.2-stable this weekend using "make world". > Then needed to write a DOS floppy and found mtools failed: > [...] > % fdformat /dev/rfd0.1440 > fdformat: /dev/rfd0.1440: Device not configured > % ls -l /dev/rfd0 > crw-rx---- 9 root operator 9, 0 May 24 08:24 /dev/rfd0 > % id > uid=928(dkelly) gid=928(dkelly) groups=928(dkelly), 0(wheel), 5(operator), 68(dialer) > % dmesg | grep fdc > fdc0 at 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa > fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold > % > > Built a new kernel too. My selections are a subset of GENERIC, the fdc > stuff was untouched. > > What broke? It used to work with earlier 3.1's. It appears dmesg sees > the floppy device. Is it something I'm doing? > Make sure you have added `disk fd0 ...' line in your kernel config. Also make sure that your floopy drive is attached properly and enabled in your BIOS. Script started on Mon May 24 23:40:16 1999 relay# uname -v | awk '{ --NF; print $0 }' FreeBSD 3.2-STABLE #0: Sun May 23 02:43:19 EEST 1999 relay# grep fd /var/run/dmesg.boot fdc0 at 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold fd0: 1.44MB 3.5in relay# fdformat /dev/rfd0.1440 Format 1440K floppy `/dev/rfd0.1440'? (y/n): y Processing VVV^C----------------------------------- relay# exit Script done on Mon May 24 23:41:20 1999 Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA of the ru@ucb.crimea.ua United Commercial Bank +380.652.247.647 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message