Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2003 12:14:27 +0200 From: Hendrik Hasenbein <hhasenbe@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de> To: Verghese George <vgeorge@groupwise.swin.edu.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Formatting a floppy Message-ID: <3F507903.1010708@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de> In-Reply-To: <sf509c23.074@groupwise.swin.edu.au> References: <sf509c23.074@groupwise.swin.edu.au>
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Verghese George wrote: > Did anybody find a bug in FreeBSD 5.1 when formatting a floppy? It > always gives an error even when formatting a new floppy, When I used > version 4.8, the formatting works fine with the same machine and > hardware. I also find the number of drives in Free BSD 5.1 much less > than in version 4.8. Many of the device drivers in /dev corresponding to > fd0 are not available. I have decided to go back to version 4.8 > > Any similiar experiences? What kind of filesystem did you try to put on the floppy? The entries in /dev represent the actual situation on the floppy in FreeBSD 5. You see less device nodes in /dev on an empty floppy than on a formatted one. If you write a disklabel to the floppy new entries should appear in /dev. /dev is now a dynamic device filesystem. Hendrik
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