From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 22 04:28:44 2004 Return-Path: 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 67C0916A4CE for ; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 04:28:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk [81.2.69.218]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90AF743D39 for ; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 04:28:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (localhost.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:::1])i2MCScQb088318 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 22 Mar 2004 12:28:38 GMT (envelope-from matthew@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: (from matthew@localhost)id i2MCScbs088317; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 12:28:38 GMT (envelope-from matthew) Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 12:28:38 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman To: "Richard P. Williamson" Message-ID: <20040322122838.GA88223@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Matthew Seaman , "Richard P. Williamson" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20040322114114.66792.qmail@web21506.mail.yahoo.com> <6.0.3.0.2.20040322115432.024b97b0@cygnus> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="9jxsPFA5p3P2qPhR" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <6.0.3.0.2.20040322115432.024b97b0@cygnus> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk X-Virus-Scanned: clamd / ClamAV version devel-20040316, clamav-milter version 0.67l cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I need help mounting a floppy X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 12:28:44 -0000 --9jxsPFA5p3P2qPhR Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 11:56:59AM +0000, Richard P. Williamson wrote: > At 11:41 22/03/2004, Willy Dingledorf wrote: > >The problem began when a newbie (me) downloaded and installed FreeBSD ve= rsion 5.2, and then was unable to mount a floppy disk. > >=20 > >************************************ > >Richard Williamson wrote: > > > >Can you give us the Output of > > > >$ls /dev/fd0 > > > >-------------------------- > >Yes ... here it is: > > > >ls: /dev/fd0: No such file or directory >=20 >=20 > cd /dev > sh MAKEDEV fd0 >=20 > because it looks like the fd0 floppy device doesn't exist. Maybe when > you installed the downrev'd version, it created the /dev/fd0 when it > didn't find it. If you look in the booting system, is /dev/fd0 there > now? Unfortunately that won't help the OP at all: he has the floppy working correctly under 4.9, but his aim was to be able to use the floppy drive under 5.2.1, and your instructions won't work because: * MAKEDEV is gone from 5.x, which now uses devfs stuff instead to dynamically create all the device nodes corresponding to the available hardware. * fdc0 wasn't being probed successfully on the OP's machine under 5.x, so the kernel has no way to access the floppy drive. Unfortunately that is a bug in the system, for which there appears to be no satisfactory fix yet available. See http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=3Di386/56257 A work-around is to disable ACPI (as described in that PR), which will prevent you automatically controlling the power on your system and various other similar things, but should let you access the floppy drive. Cheers, Matthew --=20 Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK --9jxsPFA5p3P2qPhR Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAXtv2dtESqEQa7a0RAlpIAJ0WLLD6yhEJI4zsKS+5/2NSp+5l1wCfYjCv uMTWmZpU9OvwDKPW4M2PvEQ= =bIGx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --9jxsPFA5p3P2qPhR--