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Date:      Wed, 29 Sep 2004 08:31:36 -0600
From:      Nathan Kinkade <nkinkade@ub.edu.bz>
To:        nicx@ebox.gr
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Message-ID:  <20040929143136.GE3633@gentoo-npk.bmp.ub>
In-Reply-To: <1096411549.30508.15.camel@chaucer>
References:  <200409282217.i8SMHQmd008769@hermes.hyperhosting.gr> <1096411549.30508.15.camel@chaucer>

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On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 06:45:49PM -0400, Mike Jeays wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 18:17, Nicx wrote:
> >    Hi Guy's
> >=20
> >    I have problem with my floppy
> >=20
> >    always said me :
> >=20
> >    Can't open /dev/fd0:
> >=20
> >    No such file or directory
> >=20
> >    and my floppy disk is corectly installed at my BIOS
> >=20
> >    I haven't problem with Linux or Solaris but i don't know why always
> >    happened this on Free BSD
> >=20
> >    Thanks!
> >    ... Nicx
>=20
> Try
> mount /dev/fd0c /mnt           (UFS floopy)=20
> or
> mount -t msdos /dev/fd0c /mnt  (DOS FAT floppy)
>=20
> It may work if your system is an earlier version; I think it was changed
> to fd0 in 5.0.
>=20

Sounds to me like the device isn't being found at all in the /dev
directory.  If fd0 doesn't exist then certainly fd0c won't exist either. =
=20

What does `ls -l /dev/fd*` reveal?

Also, what does `dmesg | grep fd` show?

Are you using devfs?

Nathan
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