From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 13 20:57:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0490737B544 for ; Mon, 13 Mar 2000 20:57:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA12851; Mon, 13 Mar 2000 21:29:43 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 21:29:43 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Harry Woodward-Clarke Cc: Uriel Ash , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /kernel error when trying to mount my floppy drive Message-ID: <20000313212943.G14279@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <38CDC0E0.80035F22@earthlink.net> <38CDC482.4C9657B@S1.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <38CDC482.4C9657B@S1.com>; from Harry.Woodward-Clarke@S1.com on Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 04:48:02AM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Harry Woodward-Clarke [000313 21:21] wrote: > Hi again Uriel > > > On advice from a freebsd subscriber, I tried > > mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt and the error has now changed to > > > > /kernel: fd0c: hard error reading fsbn 0 ( ST0 40 (abnrml) ST 11 > ST2 0 cyl 0 hd 0 sec 1. > > > > At a rough guess, I'd say the diskette is 'stuffed'. This is a technical > term that translates to 'throw it away and get a new one' ;') If the data is important you _may_ be able to salvage it by using mtools (/usr/ports/emulators/mtools/) but I wouldn't count on it. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message