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Date:      Tue, 16 Mar 2004 11:11:18 -0600
From:      "Terry L. Tyson Jr." <ty@tyson.homeunix.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Format floppy problem
Message-ID:  <20040316171118.GA62000@tyson.homeunix.org>
In-Reply-To: <200403171022.29381.satimis@icare.com.hk>
References:  <200403170921.34200.satimis@icare.com.hk> <20040316164021.GA61886@tyson.homeunix.org> <200403171022.29381.satimis@icare.com.hk>

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On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 10:22:29AM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote:
> On Wednesday 17 March 2004 00:40, Terry L. Tyson Jr. wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 09:21:34AM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote:
> > >
> > > FreeBSD 5.2
> > > ==========
> > >
> > > Floppies formatted on M$Win can be mounted, copied files to and read,
> > > etc.
> > >
> > > But floppies formatted on FreeBSD with
> > >
> > > $ fdformat /dev/fd0
> > > Format 1440K floppy `/dev/fd0'? (y/n): y
> > > Processing VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV done.
> > >
> > > they could not be mounted
> > >
> > > $ mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /usr/home/user/floppy
> > > msdosfs: /dev/fd0: Invalid argument
> > >
> > > I tested 3 floppies with the same result.  Kindly advise how to fix this
> > > problem.  Is there a special format floppy command for FreeBSD.
> > >
> >
> > Try your mount command again without the "-t msdos" since it isn't a
> > dos formatted disk.
> 
> Hi Terry,
> 
> $ mount /dev/fd0 /usr/home/user/floppy
> mount: /dev/fd0 on /usr/home/user/floppy: incorrect super block
> $ mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /usr/home/user/floppy
> mount: exec mount_vfat not found in /sbin:/usr/sbin: No such file or directory
> $ mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /usr/home/user/floppy
> msdosfs: /dev/fd0: Invalid argument
> 
> Stephen

Oops. See first the explainations of formatting by Prodigy and
Cordula's Web. Then try the command. ;-)

--
Terry L. Tyson Jr.
Baytown, Texas USA
ty@tyson.homeunix.org



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