From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 25 3:42:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from samar.sasi.com (samar.sasken.com [164.164.56.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B8DC37B400 for ; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 03:42:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from samar (samar.sasi.com [164.164.56.2]) by samar.sasi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id RAA22009 for ; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 17:12:14 +0530 (IST) Received: from suns3.sasi.com ([10.0.36.3]) by samar.sasi.com; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 17:12:13 +0000 (IST) Received: from localhost (sseth@localhost) by suns3.sasi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA29983 for ; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 17:12:13 +0530 (IST) Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 17:12:12 +0530 (IST) From: Satyajeet Seth To: Subject: Floppy mount problem! Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi I tried to mount a floppy using the following command: mount /dev/fd0 /floppy It gave the following message: Jan 25 17:00:00 pcs130 /kernel: fd0: recal failed ST0 70 cyl 0 Jan 25 17:00:00 pcs130 /kernel: fd0: recal failed ST0 70 cyl 0 mount: Input/output error Jan 25 17:00:01 pcs130 last message repeated 3 times Jan 25 17:00:01 pcs130 /kernel: fd0c: hard error reading fsbn 16 of 16-31 (No status) Jan 25 17:00:01 pcs130 last message repeated 3 times Jan 25 17:00:01 pcs130 /kernel: fd0c: hard error reading fsbn 16 of 16-31 (No status) I am able to use the floppy on linux using the mtools package. I am using FreeBSD 4.0. Could you tell what I am doing wrong? -Satya To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message