Hi,
Yes looks like there are some problems with the floppy drive in this version ..
the floppy drive as such works fine with netbsd and linux on other partitions.
I am posting the relevent portions of dmesg which gave some errors ..
..
FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE #0: Thu Jun 5 02:55:42 GMT 2003
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
Preloaded elf kernel "/boot/kernel/kernel" at 0xc0b0c000.
Preloaded mfs_root "/boot/mfsroot" at 0xc0b0c26c.
Preloaded elf module "/boot/kernel/acpi.ko" at 0xc0b0c2b0.
Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz
Timecounter "TSC" frequency 1991922376 Hz
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.00GHz (1991.92-MHz 686-class CPU)
...
fdc0: cmd 3 failed at out byte 1 of 3
orm0: <Option ROMs> at iomem 0xcc000-0xd3fff,0xc0000-0xcbfff on isa0
pmtimer0 on isa0
fdc0: cannot reserve I/O port range (6 ports)
...
There are other errors also which is not relevent to this problem, but it is
unusual .. (there are lot of errors printed below)
module_register: module pci/txp already exists!
Module pci/txp failed to register: 17
interface sysvmsg.1 already present in the KLD 'kernel'!
module_register: module pccard/xe already exists!
Module pccard/xe failed to register: 17
module_register: module pci/pcn already exists!
Module pci/pcn failed to register: 17
module_register: module pcn/miibus already exists!
Module pcn/miibus failed to register: 17
module_register: module pci/vr already exists!
Module pci/vr failed to register: 17
module_register: module vr/miibus already exists!
Module vr/miibus failed to register: 17
module_register: module pci/ste already exists!
Module pci/ste failed to register: 17
module_register: module ste/miibus already exists!
Module ste/miibus failed to register: 17
module_register: module if_tun already exists!
..
Thanks,
Srini
--- Lowell Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Srinivasa Kanduru <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I happenned to install 5.1 FreeBSD. I couldn't mount floppy disk. I
> noticed
> > that /dev/fd0 did not exist. I tried doing a mknod using character device
> 9, 0
> > for fd0 but it doesn't work. The floppy devnode is not permitted to be
> created.
> >
> > Incidentally there seems to be a change in the devfs and the usage is not
> very
> > intuitive. Is there anywhere the examples are given ? Particularly if I
> want to
> > use the floppy disk how can I get around this problem.
>
> 5.x uses devfs exclusively (by default, anyway), and 4.x does not.
> Does the kernel detect fd0 as it is booting?
>
> --
> Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area:
> resume/CV at http://be-well.ilk.org:8088/~lowell/resume/
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