On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, [iso-8859-1] Florin Betivoiu wrote: > I'm trying to mount a floppy and not having much success... I don't > know what it is wrong that I do, cause on the same machine (but on > Linux) everything is fine. Below is my kernel configuration file, my dmesg > and the error I get when I try to mount. Please help! > > # dmesg > Copyright (c) 1992-2003 The FreeBSD Project. > Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 > The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. > FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE #2: Wed Sep 3 19:56:16 EEST 2003 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/PONY > (..snip..) > fdc0: <Enhanced floppy controller (i82077, NE72065 or clone)> port 0x3f7,0x3f0-0x3f5 > irq 6 drq 2 on acpi0 > fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold > fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0 > (..snip..) > # mount /dev/fd0 /mntmount: /dev/fd0: Input/output error > # Thanks
Your floppy drive should do. Please try dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/dev/null to check whether it really does. If your floppy is MS-DOS formatted, try: mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mntmount Regards Konrad Heuer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ____ ___ _______ GWDG / __/______ ___ / _ )/ __/ _ \ Am Fassberg / _// __/ -_) -_) _ |\ \/ // / 37077 Goettingen /_/ /_/ \__/\__/____/___/____/ Germany _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
