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From: "Donald J . Maddox" <dmaddox099@sc.rr.com>
To: Satyajeet Seth <sseth@sasken.com>
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Subject: Re: Floppy mount problem!
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On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 05:55:09PM +0530, Satyajeet Seth wrote:
> Hi
> 
> > Is this an MSDOS-formatted floppy?  If so either try:
> >
> > # mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy
> 
> The floppy has been formatted on linux using the command:
> 
> mformat a:
> 
> So it is a MSDOS-formatted floppy.
> 
> On the FreeBSD machine,
> 
> # mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy
> 
> gives the output:
> 
> Jan 25 17:00:00 pcs130 /kernel: fd0: recal failed ST0
> 70<abnrml,seek_cmplt,equ_chck> cyl 0
> Jan 25 17:00:00 pcs130 /kernel: fd0: recal failed ST0
> 70<abnrml,seek_cmplt,equ_chck> cyl 0
> 
> mount: /dev/fd0: 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 0 of
> 0-3 (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 0 of 0-3
> (No status)

Hmmm, I would tend to think that this is just a bad drive, or at lease
out of cal relative to the one on the Linux box, but I'm no expert on
floppy hardware expert :)

> > or use mtools just like you did on linux.  It's in the ports :)
> 
> We are using a standalone FreeBSD 4.0 machine. But, mtools source
> files need to be downloaded.

No, if you have the CD, just install the package.


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