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Date:      Thu, 4 Sep 2003 10:01:57 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Konrad Heuer <kheuer2@gwdg.de>
To:        =?iso-8859-1?q?Florin=20Betivoiu?= <flow_of_rhin@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: newbie
Message-ID:  <20030904095813.V41403-100000@gwdu60.gwdg.de>
In-Reply-To: <20030904074858.37270.qmail@web80509.mail.yahoo.com>

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On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, [iso-8859-1] Florin Betivoiu wrote:

>      I'm trying to mount a floppy and not having much success... I don't
> know what it is wrong that I do, cause on the same machine (but on
> Linux) everything is fine. Below is my kernel configuration file, my dmesg
> and the error I get when I try to mount. Please help!
>
> # dmesg
> Copyright (c) 1992-2003 The FreeBSD Project.
> Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
> 	The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
> FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE #2: Wed Sep  3 19:56:16 EEST 2003
>     root@pony:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/PONY
> (..snip..)
> fdc0: <Enhanced floppy controller (i82077, NE72065 or clone)> port 0x3f7,0x3f0-0x3f5 irq 6 drq 2 on acpi0
> fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold
> fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0
> (..snip..)
> # mount /dev/fd0 /mntmount: /dev/fd0: Input/output error
> # Thanks

Your floppy drive should do. Please try

dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/dev/null

to check whether it really does. If your floppy is MS-DOS formatted, try:

mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mntmount

Regards

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