misc/88585: Cannot mount floppy

Craig Rodrigues rodrigc at crodrigues.org
Sat Nov 19 14:40:33 PST 2005


The following reply was made to PR i386/88585; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc at crodrigues.org>
To: bug-followup at freebsd.org
Cc: Vasily <stanv at pochtamt.ru>
Subject: Re: misc/88585: Cannot mount floppy
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 17:38:41 -0500

 > >How-To-Repeat:
 > mount -t msdosfs /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
 > mount_msdosfs: /dev/fd0: Read-only file system
 
 What happens if you do:
 
 mount -r -t msdosfs /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
 
 You may want to check the BIOS of your computer to see if it disables
 writing to the floppy drive.
 
 -- 
 Craig Rodrigues        
 rodrigc at crodrigues.org


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