From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 14 0:39:46 2002 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 32BFF37B401 for ; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 00:39:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.thundernet.cz (mail.thundernet.cz [62.77.87.114]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5D2C143E6E for ; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 00:39:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from neuhauser@bellavista.cz) Received: (qmail 31059 invoked from network); 14 Oct 2002 07:39:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO freepuppy.bellavista.cz) (62.168.44.50) by mail.thundernet.cz with SMTP; 14 Oct 2002 07:39:39 -0000 Received: by freepuppy.bellavista.cz (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 133442FDAB2; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 09:39:38 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 09:39:38 +0200 From: Roman Neuhauser To: freebsd-questions Cc: Wayne Lubin Subject: Re: trouble mounting floppy Message-ID: <20021014073938.GP364@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions , Wayne Lubin References: <20021013232755.34322.qmail@web14708.mail.yahoo.com> <3.0.5.32.20021013225325.0136e5e8@mail.sage-one.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20021013225325.0136e5e8@mail.sage-one.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG wayne, don't top-post. not even when following up to your own post. # jackstone@sage-one.net / 2002-10-13 22:53:25 -0500: > At 08:28 PM 10.13.2002 -0700, Wayne Lubin wrote: > >--- Wayne Lubin wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I have been mounting my floppy drive for a long > >> time. > >> However, now when I do a > >> > >> mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy > >> > >> it gives me the error msg > >> > >> mount: /dev/fd0: Device not configured > >> > >> It may have to do with the fact that the last time I > >> mounted the floppy I turned off the computer without > >> umount ing it. Thanks for you help. > > > >So I guess my question is what does it mean that > >/dev/fd0 is not configured and how can I get it > >configured so that I can start mounting it again. > > I see no one else has taken a shot at this, so: > > 1) do you have a directory "/mnt/floppy" > 2) do you have the device "fd0" in /dev also, are you trying to mount the same floppy you forgot to unmount? if you have ufs on the floppy you will need to fsck first. i don't remember if you would be getting "not configured" error though... -- begin 666 nonexistent.vbs FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE 9:36AM up 1 day, 12:06, 9 users, load averages: 0.01, 0.02, 0.00 end To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message