I need help mounting a floppy
Gentlemen, This note is a continuation of a thread which started last week ... and actually, the problem is almost resolved. The problem began when a newbie (me) downloaded and installed FreeBSD version 5.2, and then was unable to mount a floppy disk. 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 Stephen Liu wrote: Please try ls -l /dev | grep fd0 -- My PC output is: # Stephen Liu wrote: Did you have /mnt created. Please try # ls -l / | grep mnt -- My PC output is: drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Jan 10 21:44 mnt Stephen Liu wrote: Did you have /floppy created. Try # ls / | grep floppy -- My PC output is: drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Mar 16 03:53 floppy Kevin Kinsey wrote: What do you see when you type this from the console? $grep fd /var/log/dmesg.today -- My PC output mentions fdc0 several times. For example: pci0: display, VGA at device 10.0 (no driver attached) pci0: multimedia, audio at device 12.0 (no driver attached) fdc0: cannot reserve I/O port range (1 ports) : : psm0: PS/2 Mouse irq 12 on atkbdc0 psm0: model Generic PS/2 mouse, device ID/0 fdc0: cannot reserve I/0 port range (1 ports) : : orm0: Option ROMS at iomem 0xc8000-0xc8fff, 0xc000-0xc7fff on isa0 ptimer on isa0 fdc0: cannot reserve I/O port range (6 ports) Odhiambo Washington wrote: If you look at /var/run/dmesg.boot, do you see entries like these: fdc0: Enhanced floppy controller (i82077, NE72065 or clone) port 0x3f7,0x3f0-0x3f5 irq 6 drq 2 on acpi0 fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold fdc0: 1440-KB 3.5 drive on fdc0 drive 0 -- No. My PC output mentions fdc0 several times, and I think the lines are identical to the lines that came from /var/log/dmesg.today For example: fdc0: cannot reserve I/O port range (1 ports) fdc0: cannot reserve I/O port range (6 ports) Later, I installed FreeBSD version 5.2.1 There were no improvements in my symptoms ... I still could not mount a floppy disk. Still later (since JJ Barbish warned me that I might have to go back a version or two), I installed FreeBSD version 4.7 which was the one that came in the SAM's Book that I bought. Now, /var/run/dmesg.boot has lines which read: pci0: S3 ViRGE graphics accelerator at 10.0 irq 10 pci0: unknown card (vendor=0x1274, dev=0x5000) at 12.0 irq 9 orm0: Option ROMs at iomem 0xc-0xc7fff,0xc8000-0xc8fff on isa0 fdc0: NEC 72065B or clone at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0 fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold fd0: 1440-KB 3.5 drive on fdc0 drive 0 And now, I can mount the floppy disk ( and now I can provide the boot-log if anyone wants to see it ) * So now that we know that FreeBSD previously had a feature that has since been disabled, is there anything I can do to make FreeBSD version 5.2.1 work on my computer ? If not, I assume that I will have to stick with version 4.9 for now ? Willy Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I need help mounting a floppy
At 11:41 22/03/2004, Willy Dingledorf wrote: The problem began when a newbie (me) downloaded and installed FreeBSD version 5.2, and then was unable to mount a floppy disk. 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 cd /dev sh MAKEDEV fd0 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? Regards, Richard ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I need help mounting a floppy
On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 11:56:59AM +, Richard P. Williamson wrote: At 11:41 22/03/2004, Willy Dingledorf wrote: The problem began when a newbie (me) downloaded and installed FreeBSD version 5.2, and then was unable to mount a floppy disk. 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 cd /dev sh MAKEDEV fd0 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=i386/56257 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 -- 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 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: I need help mounting a floppy
At 12:28 22/03/2004, Matthew Seaman wrote: On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 11:56:59AM +, Richard P. Williamson wrote: At 11:41 22/03/2004, Willy Dingledorf wrote: The problem began when a newbie (me) downloaded and installed FreeBSD version 5.2, and then was unable to mount a floppy disk. 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 cd /dev sh MAKEDEV fd0 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. Ah. My bad. I shut up now. Actually, it looks like I blindly ignored/missed the original 5.x reference. My brain is stuck on 4.8. rip ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I need help mounting a floppy
Gentlemen: I am a frustrated newbie who has a good back-ground in Microsoft operating-systems, but no experience with FreeBSD. I have installed various versions of FreeBSD many times on several different computers ... but after a successful install, I keep running into brick-walls. My most recent failure came after down-loading and installing FreeBSD version 5.2 I have been unable to mount the floppy-disk. I have tried typing various commands that I found in different books, and also some that I found in the Help-files (that I down-loaded from the FreeBSD Web-site). Here are some examples (none of which work): # fdformat /dev/fd0 fdformat: open(/dev/fd0): No such file or directory # mount /dev/fd0 /mnt mount: /dev/fd0: No such file or directory # mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy msdosfs: /dev/fd0: No such file or directory #mount_msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy mount_msdos: command not found Or, if you would rather that I take the fstab approach ... yes, I have tried that too ... and failed. Here are some examples (none of which work): I edited the fstab-file by inserting the following lines (each one, in turn): /dev/fd0 /floppy msdos rw,noauto 0 0 /dev/fd0 /floppy msdosfs rw 0 0 No matter what lines I tried, the result was always similar to this: # mount /floppy msdosfs /dev/fd0: No such file or directory If it looks like I do not know what I am doing ... that is exactly right. If I type something-in and it does not work ... I do not have any idea why ... and I have no idea how to invent some new words to type. Can some-one help me ? (And remember ... before you ask for my boot-log ... I cannot mount the floppy ... so I don't know how to get a text-file out of that machine). Willy Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - More reliable, more storage, less spam ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I need help mounting a floppy
Willy Dingledorf wrote: Gentlemen: I am a frustrated newbie who has a good back-ground in Microsoft operating-systems, but no experience with FreeBSD. I have installed various versions of FreeBSD many times on several different computers ... but after a successful install, I keep running into brick-walls. You ought to stop that ... pain hurts. :D My most recent failure came after down-loading and installing FreeBSD version 5.2 I have been unable to mount the floppy-disk. I have tried typing various commands that I found in different books, and also some that I found in the Help-files (that I down-loaded from the FreeBSD Web-site). Here are some examples (none of which work): # fdformat /dev/fd0 fdformat: open(/dev/fd0): No such file or directory # mount /dev/fd0 /mnt mount: /dev/fd0: No such file or directory # mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy msdosfs: /dev/fd0: No such file or directory #mount_msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy mount_msdos: command not found Or, if you would rather that I take the fstab approach ... yes, I have tried that too ... and failed. Here are some examples (none of which work): I edited the fstab-file by inserting the following lines (each one, in turn): /dev/fd0 /floppy msdos rw,noauto 0 0 /dev/fd0 /floppy msdosfs rw 0 0 No matter what lines I tried, the result was always similar to this: # mount /floppy msdosfs /dev/fd0: No such file or directory If it looks like I do not know what I am doing ... that is exactly right. If I type something-in and it does not work ... I do not have any idea why ... and I have no idea how to invent some new words to type. Can some-one help me ? (And remember ... before you ask for my boot-log ... I cannot mount the floppy ... so I don't know how to get a text-file out of that machine). Willy Well, let's do an optical diff then ... what do you see when you do this from the console? $grep fd /var/log/dmesg.today Should be something like: Using $PIR table, 6 entries at 0xc00fdf10 fdc0: Enhanced floppy controller (i82077, NE72065 or clone) port 0x3f7,0x3f2-0 x3f5 irq 6 drq 2 on acpi0 fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold fd0: 1440-KB 3.5 drive on fdc0 drive 0 and what about: $ls / | grep mnt That should say: mnt/ Kevin Kinsey DaleCo, S.P. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I need help mounting a floppy
Willy Dingledorf wrote: fdformat: open(/dev/fd0): No such file or directory mount: /dev/fd0: No such file or directory msdosfs: /dev/fd0: No such file or directory msdosfs /dev/fd0: No such file or directory I'd try Occam... Can you give us the output of $ls /dev/fd0 regards, rip ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I need help mounting a floppy
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Re: I need help mounting a floppy
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Extracting, mounting a floppy.
With what can i extract files from a bz2 archieve? How can i mount a floppy? __ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Extracting, mounting a floppy.
On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Valerian Galeru wrote: With what can i extract files from a bz2 archieve? # bunzip2 Also have a look at # man bunzip How can i mount a floppy? (Assuming it is dos formatted) # mount_msdosfs /dev/fd0 /mnt also have a look at # man mount Regards, Uli. __ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] +---+ |Peter Ulrich Kruppa| | Wuppertal | | Germany | +---+ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mounting a floppy
Hello I am having a slight problem with FreeBSD 4.8. I cannot seem to mount a floppy drive. I tried mount /dev/fd0 but it comes back saying something like an unrecognized file system or device. How do I mount my floppy drive in FreeBSD 4.8? Thanks! Rob _ MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fwd: Re: mounting a floppy
You need to mount the file system 'somewhere.' mount /dev/fd0 /mnt or similar. mount [device] [location] On Tuesday 01 July 2003 02:25 pm, Robert Gallimore wrote: Hello I am having a slight problem with FreeBSD 4.8. I cannot seem to mount a floppy drive. I tried mount /dev/fd0 but it comes back saying something like an unrecognized file system or device. How do I mount my floppy drive in FreeBSD 4.8? Thanks! Rob _ MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mounting a floppy
On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 01:25:17PM -0500, Robert Gallimore wrote: Hello I am having a slight problem with FreeBSD 4.8. I cannot seem to mount a floppy drive. I tried mount /dev/fd0 but it comes back saying something like an unrecognized file system or device. How do I mount my floppy drive in FreeBSD 4.8? Thanks! Try # mount -t msdos -o rw /dev/fd0 /mnt That's a bit much to type, and constant su-ing is a pain in the tuchis, so I use a bash alias. alias monterfd='sudo mount -t msdos -o rw /dev/fd0 /mnt' I type $ monterfd and my password, and the fd is mounted. Bob Hall ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mounting a floppy
On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 01:25:17PM -0500, Robert Gallimore wrote: I am having a slight problem with FreeBSD 4.8. I cannot seem to mount a floppy drive. I tried mount /dev/fd0 but it comes back saying something like an unrecognized file system or device. How do I mount my floppy drive in FreeBSD 4.8? Thanks! If this is a DOS format floppy, then here's a tip: don't bother trying to mount and unmount the floppy all the time. Instead, install the emulators/mtools port. This gives you a whole bunch of MS-DOS style commands, except with an 'm' prepended to the name, which let you access the floppy drive but without having to mount it first. Eg. you can do: % mdir a: If you are using a non-DOS floppy or you really need to mount the floppy for some other reason, then you're going to have to tell mount(8) all of the information it needs. There's two ways to do that: either on the mount(8) command line, or by making an entry in /etc/fstab. Eg. to mount a read-only floppy with a msdos filesystem on it as /mnt: # mount -t msdos -o ro /dev/fd0 /mnt Note that: a) you usually have to have superuser privilege to run mount(8) or umount(8). You can either install the sudo(8) port and generate the appropriate configuration there, or you can set the vfs.usermount sysctl to a non-zero value. See mount(2), sysctl(8) for details, but note that setting vfs.usermount potentially opens up a nasty security hole, so you should understand exactly what you are doing if you decide to do that. b) You have to remember to unmount the floppy before you eject it from the drive. Not doing that has undesirable effects. Similarly, if the floppy has the write protect tab set, you have to tell the system to mount it read-only. Unfortunately, the system can't actually detect that the disk is write protected automatically. Even worse, if you mount a unix format RO floppy using RW flags, even if you do nothing more than read files from the disk, the system will hang when you try and unmount the disk because the system will try and update the 'last mounted on' entry on the disk. (Solution is to pop the floppy out, toggle the write protect tab and put the disk back smartly so the write can complete). Oh -- editing files on such a disk will apparently work because the system will hold the whole 1.44Mb disk image in cache. Changes will be flushed to disk eventually, or when you try and unmount it. Cheers, Matthew -- 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 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
