Re: mtools can't access drive A

2004-08-26 Thread Karel J. Bosschaart
On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 03:03:08PM -0400, Steven Friedrich wrote:
> I just installed mtools today.  I'm tracking 4.10 STABLE and my ports tree was 
> updated yesterday.
> 
> I get an error:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED](p1)/usr/src 114% mdir a:
> Can't open /dev/fd0.720: Device not configured
> Cannot initialize 'A:'
> 
Are you sure that you need fd0.720? AFAIK a standard floppy drive nowadays
is an fd0.1440 (referring to 1.4 MB capacity).

Karel.
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Re: mtools can't access drive A

2004-08-25 Thread Steven Friedrich
On Wednesday 25 August 2004 03:32 pm, Josh Paetzel wrote:
> On Wednesday 25 August 2004 14:03, Steven Friedrich wrote:
> > I just installed mtools today.  I'm tracking 4.10 STABLE and my
> > ports tree was updated yesterday.
> >
> > I get an error:
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED](p1)/usr/src 114% mdir a:
> > Can't open /dev/fd0.720: Device not configured
> > Cannot initialize 'A:'
> >
> >
> > dev says:
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED](p1)/dev 116% ll fd0*
> > crw-r-  18 root  operator9,   0 Jul  7 01:00 fd0
> > crw-r-   2 root  operator9,   4 Jul  7 01:00 fd0.1200
> > crw-r-   2 root  operator9,  10 Jul  7 01:00 fd0.1232
> > crw-r-   2 root  operator9,   3 Jul 29 00:39 fd0.1440
> > crw-r-   2 root  operator9,   2 Jul  7 01:00 fd0.1480
> > crw-r-   2 root  operator9,   1 Jul  7 01:00 fd0.1720
> > crw-r-   2 root  operator9,   8 Jul  7 01:00 fd0.360
> > crw-r-   2 root  operator9,   9 Jul  7 01:00 fd0.640
> > crw-r-   2 root  operator9,   7 Jul  7 01:00 fd0.720
> > crw-r-   2 root  operator9,   6 Jul  7 01:00 fd0.800
> > crw-r-   2 root  operator9,   5 Jul  7 01:00 fd0.820
> > crw-r-  18 root  operator9,   0 Jul  7 01:00 fd0a
> > crw-r-  18 root  operator9,   0 Jul  7 01:00 fd0b
> > crw-r-  18 root  operator9,   0 Jul  7 01:00 fd0c
> > crw-r-  18 root  operator9,   0 Jul  7 01:00 fd0d
> > crw-r-  18 root  operator9,   0 Jul  7 01:00 fd0e
> > crw-r-  18 root  operator9,   0 Jul  7 01:00 fd0f
> > crw-r-  18 root  operator9,   0 Jul  7 01:00 fd0g
> > crw-r-  18 root  operator9,   0 Jul  7 01:00 fd0h
> >
> > I first saw this on my -CURRENT box and figured it was devfs
> > related, but I hadn't researched it yet. Now I have it on my
> > -STABLE boxes.
> >
> > Any ideas?
>
> Take a look in /usr/local/etc for a mtools.conf.sample  Edit to taste
> and copy it to mtools.conf
>
> Thanks,
>
> Josh Paetzel
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Thanks for the response, but still no joy...
Is there a daemon process that needs to be started by rc.conf or does it 
require linux compat?
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Re: mtools can't access drive A

2004-08-25 Thread Josh Paetzel
On Wednesday 25 August 2004 14:03, Steven Friedrich wrote:
> I just installed mtools today.  I'm tracking 4.10 STABLE and my
> ports tree was updated yesterday.
>
> I get an error:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED](p1)/usr/src 114% mdir a:
> Can't open /dev/fd0.720: Device not configured
> Cannot initialize 'A:'
>
>
> dev says:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED](p1)/dev 116% ll fd0*
> crw-r-  18 root  operator9,   0 Jul  7 01:00 fd0
> crw-r-   2 root  operator9,   4 Jul  7 01:00 fd0.1200
> crw-r-   2 root  operator9,  10 Jul  7 01:00 fd0.1232
> crw-r-   2 root  operator9,   3 Jul 29 00:39 fd0.1440
> crw-r-   2 root  operator9,   2 Jul  7 01:00 fd0.1480
> crw-r-   2 root  operator9,   1 Jul  7 01:00 fd0.1720
> crw-r-   2 root  operator9,   8 Jul  7 01:00 fd0.360
> crw-r-   2 root  operator9,   9 Jul  7 01:00 fd0.640
> crw-r-   2 root  operator9,   7 Jul  7 01:00 fd0.720
> crw-r-   2 root  operator9,   6 Jul  7 01:00 fd0.800
> crw-r-   2 root  operator9,   5 Jul  7 01:00 fd0.820
> crw-r-  18 root  operator9,   0 Jul  7 01:00 fd0a
> crw-r-  18 root  operator9,   0 Jul  7 01:00 fd0b
> crw-r-  18 root  operator9,   0 Jul  7 01:00 fd0c
> crw-r-  18 root  operator9,   0 Jul  7 01:00 fd0d
> crw-r-  18 root  operator9,   0 Jul  7 01:00 fd0e
> crw-r-  18 root  operator9,   0 Jul  7 01:00 fd0f
> crw-r-  18 root  operator9,   0 Jul  7 01:00 fd0g
> crw-r-  18 root  operator9,   0 Jul  7 01:00 fd0h
>
> I first saw this on my -CURRENT box and figured it was devfs
> related, but I hadn't researched it yet. Now I have it on my
> -STABLE boxes.
>
> Any ideas?

Take a look in /usr/local/etc for a mtools.conf.sample  Edit to taste 
and copy it to mtools.conf

Thanks,

Josh Paetzel
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