Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 10:08:46 -0700 From: "Gravel, Emmanuel (AZ77)" <Emmanuel.Gravel@CAS.honeywell.com> To: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Floppy won't mount anymore Message-ID: <417E587B9C99D111A1010000F803B7CE4DD82E@az77-revere.bcasd.az.honeywell.com>
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Yesterday, I had modified my fstab to show /dev/fd0.1440 as being an msdos floppy, read/write, 0 and 0 (didn't do an noauto at first). It mounted properly and I was able to retrieve the files from one of my disks. I shutdown without umounting the drive and I kept the line in the fstab (still without the noauto option). When I turned on my computer this morning, when mounting the drives, it gave an error when looking at fd0 (stating something about invalid blocks when no floppy was inserted, and then something about an I/O error. I have never been able to mount the floppy afterwards. I removed the line in fstab and rebooted, then added the line and tried mounting the floppy, and I got that same error (the device seemed to be either already used or conflicted with something else). I can't remember what the error message was exactly, and I don't have my computer next to me, so I can only speculate or verify what others can think of. What have I missed here? I know shutting down without umounting may sometimes cause glitches, but I don't think they'd be that bad. Also, another thing that needs to be mentionned, during bootup with the line in the fstab (without the noauto) it blocks the boot at the floppy, and asks for the path to the nearest shell. I'm sure this is an easy problem to fix, but I don't even have a clue where to begin (more than I've already done). Thanks, Manu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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