Floppy Mounting Error

[Bruce A. Mah]

If memory serves me right, Fortuna wrote:

> I am currently having a floppy disk drive problem.  I have searched all over the Internet for a solution to my problem and I have not found an answer.  You are my last resort.  
> 
> For a long time I always mounted the floppy drive by typing, "mount /dev/fd0 /floppy," and it worked fine.  Then one day I rebooted the system without unmounting 'fd0,' and now I cannot access it.  
> 
> I have tried different command combinations and nothing works.  
> 
> I keep on getting the following error:
> mount: /dev/fd0: Device not configured
> 
> Later after researching my problem, I found out that I could have used 'mtools' all along.  When I tried using 'mtools,' to access the 'fd0' I get the following error:
> plain_io: Device not configured
> init A: could not read boot sector
> cannot initialize 'A:'
> 
> Do you have any suggestions.  I would really appreciate it if you can help out.

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Good luck!

Bruce.
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