FBSD 8.2 and USB Floppies
James Colannino
james at colannino.org
Mon Jul 18 18:45:17 UTC 2011
Hey everyone,
I have a FBSD 8.2 install. I've been trying to mount DOS formatted
floppy disks via a USB floppy drive, and have been getting the following
error every time:
cannot mount /dev/da0: invalid argument
I was curious to see what would happen if I created a UFS filesystem on
the floppy and tried to mount it. So, I issued the following command:
newfs /dev/da0
It was successful. I then tried to mount the new filesystem (mount
/dev/da0 /mnt), and got the same error: invalid argument. Does FBSD
have a problem mounting USB floppy disks? It's not a big deal, as my
other USB storage devices seem to work, and as I have an ordinary floppy
drive I can try, but that curious part of me wants to know why this
isn't working.
I can provide dmesg output, if necessary.
Thanks!
James
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