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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mips!mips!sdd.hp.com!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!Germany.EU.net!olymp!boss1!juengst From: juengst@boss1.physik.uni-bonn.de (Henry G. Juengst) Subject: Re: Help on floppy drive access in 386bsd Message-ID: <1992Aug21.140608.27441@olymp.informatik.uni-bonn.de> Sender: juengst@boss1 (Henry G. Juengst) Organization: Universit"at Bonn, Informatikinstitut, R"omerstr 154, W-5300 Bonn 1 References: <1992Aug20.161801.29526@news.columbia.edu> Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 14:06:08 GMT Lines: 35 In article <1992Aug20.161801.29526@news.columbia.edu>, cl45@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Ching-Tse Liu) writes: > Hi, > I have installed 386bsd on my hard drive. When I tried to do > mount /dev/fd0a /mnt, an error message would come out -- > > "fd0: hard error (ST0 44 ST1 2 ST2 0 ST3 1C cyl 1 hd 7 sec 2) ." > > However, I could still do 'ls /mnt ' etc, but the error messages > kept coming up. I didn't have any problem during the installation. > When it boots, the following (reguarding to floppy) appears on the > screen -- > > "fd0 drives 0: 1.44M, 1: 1.2 M at 0x3f0 irq 6 drq 2 on isa ." > > Another question is: How do I read MS-DOS partitions and MS-DOS > floppy disks. I don't know how to use those mtools. > > Thanks for any help. > > *********************** > --cliu@merlin.appmath.columbia.edu * CLifton T. Liu * > --cl45@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu *********************** > I get these errors when I mount a write protected disk without -r option. It's ok with -r option. I don't that. Henry -- juengst@boss1.physik.uni-bonn.de [131.220.221.30] juengst@saph2.physik.uni-bonn.de [131.220.221.12] juengst@pib1.physik.uni-bonn.de [131.220.221.2] (strange particle) I'm only speaking for myself, but not for anybody else !