From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 19 04:17:07 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id EAA20534 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 19 Jul 1996 04:17:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tuminfo2.informatik.tu-muenchen.de (root@tuminfo2.informatik.tu-muenchen.de [131.159.0.81]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id EAA20529 for ; Fri, 19 Jul 1996 04:16:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hpzenger2.informatik.tu-muenchen.de ([131.159.8.42]) by tuminfo2.informatik.tu-muenchen.de with ESMTP id <26527-1>; Fri, 19 Jul 1996 13:16:37 +0200 Received: from unknown by hpzenger2.informatik.tu-muenchen.de id <239704>; Fri, 19 Jul 1996 13:16:04 +0100 Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1996 13:15:52 +0200 (MESZ) From: Reinhold Josef Huber To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Problems with floppy drives Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi all! I have the following problem accessing my 3.5" floppy drive: Reading works perfectly with mtools and if the floppy is mounted. Dut if I try to write to floppy with mtools or by writing on the mounted diskette, I get the message: /dev/fd0 device timeout I get the same message when trying to unmount the floppy, I guess umount tries to write some buffers. My system is FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE, installed from floppies downloaded from a mirror site (ftp.leo.org, at my university). I need this floppy drive, because it is the only "internet connection" of my machine now. Greetings, Reinhold Huber