Re: mounting MS-DOS disk in a USB floppy drive?

2005-10-10 Thread Ted Unangst
On 10/9/05, Andreas Bihlmaier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: MSDOS is ALWAYS ALWAYS 'i' in disklabel even if the whole drive is formated except when it's not, of course.

Re: mounting MS-DOS disk in a USB floppy drive?

2005-10-09 Thread Alexander Hall
James Hartley wrote: I'm unable to mount a MS-DOS disk within a USB floppy drive on OpenBSD 3.7/i386. disklabel doesn't recognize the MS-DOS filesystem either: There was a thread about disklabels and floppys not too long ago. I don't think a disklabel is used for floppys, since you seldom

Re: mounting MS-DOS disk in a USB floppy drive?

2005-10-09 Thread James Hartley
On Sunday, October 09, 2005, Alexander Hall wrote: 8 $ sudo mount -t msdos /dev/rsd0c /mnt mount_msdos: /dev/rsd0c on /mnt: Block device required 8 Hmmm maybe try /dev/sd0c? This gives a different error: $ sudo mount -t msdos /dev/sd0c /mnt mount_msdos: /dev/sd0c on /mnt:

Re: mounting MS-DOS disk in a USB floppy drive?

2005-10-09 Thread Andreas Bihlmaier
Hmmm maybe try /dev/sd0c? This gives a different error: $ sudo mount -t msdos /dev/sd0c /mnt mount_msdos: /dev/sd0c on /mnt: inappropriate file type on format Any comments are welcomed. RTFM! MSDOS is ALWAYS ALWAYS 'i' in disklabel even if the whole drive is formated as FAT! Thus try

Re: mounting MS-DOS disk in a USB floppy drive?

2005-10-09 Thread James Hartley
On Sunday, October 09, 2005, Andreas Bihlmaier wrote: ... $ sudo mount -t msdos /dev/sd0c /mnt mount_msdos: /dev/sd0c on /mnt: inappropriate file type on format ... RTFM! MSDOS is ALWAYS ALWAYS 'i' in disklabel even if the whole drive is formated as FAT! Thus try with /dev/sd0i

Re: mounting MS-DOS disk in a USB floppy drive?

2005-10-09 Thread Andreas Bihlmaier
MSDOS is ALWAYS ALWAYS 'i' in disklabel even if the whole drive is formated as FAT! Thus try with /dev/sd0i disklabel sd0 should have told you that. As stated in the original message, NOTHING is being reported by disklabel. $ disklabel sd0 #/dev/rsd0c type: SCSI disk: SCSI

mounting MS-DOS disk in a USB floppy drive?

2005-10-08 Thread James Hartley
I'm unable to mount a MS-DOS disk within a USB floppy drive on OpenBSD 3.7/i386. The following is both displayed and written to dmesg: 8 umass0 at uhub1 port2 configuration 1 interface 0 umass0: CITIZEN XIDE-USB, rev 1.10/0.00, addr 2 umass0: using UFI over CBI with CCI scsibus1 at