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Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:25:11 +0200
From: Angelo Turetta <aturetta@commit.it>
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Subject: floppy unusable in VMWare guest?
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I'm trying to use a virtual floppy from FreeBSD 7 (both 7-STABLE and 
7_2_RELEASE) in a VMWare test installation.

Both running fdformat on a fresh floppy image and trying to mount a 
preformatted one, I get errors like:

    g_vfs_done():fd0[READ(offset=0, length=8192)]error = 6

Of course, after booting the same VM with a DOS live CD, the floppy is 
perfectly functional.

I found a reference in a vmware forum post (some three years old), does 
anybody know if this is supposed to work?

http://communities.vmware.com/thread/51022

Thanks,
Angelo