From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 4 01:02:00 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9321A16A4C0 for ; Thu, 4 Sep 2003 01:02:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gwdu60.gwdg.de (gwdu60.gwdg.de [134.76.8.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBF6843FF2 for ; Thu, 4 Sep 2003 01:01:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kheuer2@gwdg.de) Received: from gwdu60.gwdg.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gwdu60.gwdg.de (8.12.8p1/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h8481vor051126; Thu, 4 Sep 2003 10:01:57 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from kheuer2@gwdg.de) Received: from localhost (kheuer2@localhost)h8481vDd051123; Thu, 4 Sep 2003 10:01:57 +0200 (CEST) X-Authentication-Warning: gwdu60.gwdg.de: kheuer2 owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 10:01:57 +0200 (CEST) From: Konrad Heuer To: =?iso-8859-1?q?Florin=20Betivoiu?= In-Reply-To: <20030904074858.37270.qmail@web80509.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20030904095813.V41403-100000@gwdu60.gwdg.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: newbie X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 08:02:00 -0000 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: 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 Konrad Heuer (kheuer2@gwdg.de) ____ ___ _______ GWDG / __/______ ___ / _ )/ __/ _ \ Am Fassberg / _// __/ -_) -_) _ |\ \/ // / 37077 Goettingen /_/ /_/ \__/\__/____/___/____/ Germany